This is not Vilnius, this is Šnipiškės, wiping his nose, the children’s leader answers, visually resembling my second or third generation cousin Audriukas Pranaitis or Stanaitis (I don’t remember exactly, because the last time I saw him was about the same time I watched that show).
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What kind of unheard-of village is this, I thought then, but quickly forgot that question, because such things do not stay long in a child’s attention center.
But later, after some years (in 2004), having come to live in Vilnius and seeing that one of its districts is actually called Šnipiškės, I remembered that show. Moreover, fate arranged it so that I then settled on Minties Street in Žirmūnai, which is a very close neighborhood to Šnipiškės.
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And, you know, then, after more than a decade since seeing that show, with Lithuania already being an EU member, chickens were still wandering in Šnipiškės (I believe, not the same ones), children were still kicking a ball on dusty gravel streets (also not the same as in the show) and it seemed that nothing had changed much in that district during that time.
