For this book, Tilmann Bünz hopped on his saddle and traveled from the Curonian Spit to Narva, sometimes through the heart of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and other times along a coast that lies in a Sleeping Beauty slumber. He shares experiences and encounters, recounting the vanished synagogues of Vilnius and the renaissance of wooden houses in Riga. He reveals how to catch smelt in the Curonian Lagoon at minus 20 degrees and why 100 people emigrate from Lithuania every day. He also recalls the largest human chain of all time, which marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is a thought-provoking and contemporary book of stories for anyone who wants to not just travel through the Baltics, but truly understand them.