Neat thread, glad it got resurrected.
Aside from actually being born in Lithuania I have only left the US 3 times, Canada with parents years ago, and England and Sweden for work,
While in Sweden I went out with a few people from Germany and of-course suggested we go to a pool hall where the wheelchair world champion happened to be that night doing some exhibition for a group of businessmen. A week or so after I got home I saw him play on ESPN.
While in England I could not really find a place to play, at that time pool was not very big there and the snooker places were more like private clubs,