Vilnius
Travel Blogs from Vilnius, Lithuania
Trakai National Park
... a glimps into the prison slife under KGB. The KGB used bugging devise to eavdrop on foreign tourists and citizens of Lithuania SSR to prevent any negative comment against the Soviets. The prisons shows confinement room, tourture room with padded walls ...
I dreamt of tractors and donkey carts...
Out of the three capitals we visited during this trip, I probably expected the least from Vilnius. In fact I think I dreamt of no more than tractors and donkey carts roaming the streets on a grey snowless December day. That just shows how ignorant I can ...
Baroque Old Town
I have arrived in Vilnius, Lithuania since last night. Didn't really have too much time for sightseeing before sunset. So I checked into my hostel and had a nice chat with several fellow travellers from around the world and shared ...
Warsaw to Vilnius
... Augustow a tourist destination. It feels like a tourist destination with a large square and outdoor cafes. I crossed the border into Lithuania on Monday. The Polish police nodded at me through the window and I was meet at the Lithuanian border by a ...
Taurage Adventure
... and several phone calls it was determined that the necessary information would take a least a month to gather from their Vilnius headquarters. Even though I did not meet any direct relatives on my great grandfather's side, I certainly met three wonderful ...
5 long nights in Lithuania
... quiet pleasant but probably would have been better if I'd been feeling abit sharper. Klaipeda was promptly followed through with Vilnius, Lithuania's capital and home to the turbulence in the early 90's. Being the only city in the Baltic states ...
Vilnius, Lithuania
... , but that was on the east side of the Bosphorus so technically she was in Asia. All the way from Bulgaria to Lithuania, I cannot remember ever seeing a single bean, pea or sprout. Touristically speaking, Vilnius is in a rather poor spot. With Latvia to ...
The 'New Prague'.. There goes the neighbourhood..
... city including one day that was possibly the wettest we'd encountered yet. There's some nice sights to see in Vilnius - Cathederal Square (complete with a Greek temple looking catholic church), Gedimas Castle, Gates of Dawn (sounds like a Schwazenegger ...
Warsaw to Vilnius
... Augustow a tourist destination. It feels like a tourist destination with a large square and outdoor cafes. I crossed the border into Lithuania on Monday. The Polish police nodded at me through the window and I was meet at the Lithuanian border by a ...
Holy holy Vilnius (Old Town 3 of 6)
... travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home - Dagobert D. Runes, US writer · Vilinus, Lithuania. · Prague time +1hr · Days to get to Prague - 4 The difference of Vilnius So here's a question ...
East Still
... Pre-concieved Ideas Before I went, I was told that beer was cheap and all the women were beautiful Vilnius We took a walk in the evening of arrival. I was expecting to see pissed up Poms everywhere, just like Riga, but ...
Lock in
I had to get up at three bloody o'clock to catch my bus to Lithuania. I panicked a bit when I discovered that the doors to the hotel were locked solid shut with no one at reception. Luckily I managed to wake someone up and then was rushing in the dark ...
The Cornerstones Of Hock / Cat Travel
Well in three days Chris and I have managed only one of the six reccomended sights of Vilnius, a pretty poor sculpture of some rocker called Frank Zappa. We did manage to stop at the "Hill of Crosses" a few kilometres out of Siauliai on the way down from ...
My first Baltic stop
Vilnius, Lithuania - For a long time now, I have wanted to visit the Baltics. Finally, I am here. The ride from Minsk was a short 3 hour ride on a seated train. Even though it was only three hours, I still slept! Very close to the train and bus ...
Visiting Vilnius.
... but wonderful visit with our friends in Warsaw, Poland (see last entry) we took an overnight bus to Vilnius the capital of Lithuania. Arriving around 7am, with a desperate need for the toilet, we discovered Lithuania hasn't quite shrugged off ...
HC party central
... of the city that looks like it is twisted, but it is meant to be like that obviously. The genocide museum of Lithuania is situated in Vilnius and I went there alone which turned out to be quite a creepy experience. The top was like many of the museums ...
The end of the Baltics
... stayed at so far, since there was nobody else there. Defeated, the Three had a second night in of beer and playing cards. Vilnius however has proven to be a much more beautiful city than Riga. The Lithuanian people are very nice, one group even offered ...
Het Magische Vilnius
... , maten en kleuren. De ene nog mooier dan de andere! Deze, samen met de vele andere architecturale meesterwerkjes maken van Vilnius een betoverende stad, die ons zachtjes deed wegdromen. We werden al gauw weer wakker geschud toen we het genocide museum ...
Intro
Įvadas Pasakojimas apie tai, kaip 6 turistams is Lietuvos pavyko bandymas sturmuoti Prancūzijos Rivieros didmiesčius ir virsukalnes. Sis pasakojimas yra daugiau prisiminimai nei tikras pasakojimas. Data 2007 07 20 - 2007 07 30 ...
Very lovely Vilnius
... shelves etc....At 3:45am we were woken again to get our passports back.......THEN, about an hour later, we crossed the border to Lithuania, so more officials came knocking to look at our passports etc. During this time, we also had to endure a whole lotta ...
Changing plans
Our first point of call in Lithuania was The Hill of Crosses, near the town of Siauliai. This is a strange little place where Lithuanians have been putting crosses on a hill as memorials to loved ones who have either died or back during the soviet reign ...
Namai namuciai
Issikrovę daiktus ir po greito sluoja-valo-plauna seanso vezam kemperį pas savininką, dar pries tai pagal nuomos sutartį pripildę pilną baką kuro uz paskutinius turimus litus. Savininkas apziūri ...
Vilnius, December 29, 2005 - Thursday
... didn't. My parents found some connections, bribed right people and he stayed in Kaliningrad." Yes, that too was the history of Lithuania and Lithuanians, a small but proud people - fighting on the side of someone whom in your heart you saw as an enemy, ...
Warsaw and Vilnius
... apartment, which seemd to be on the main street. It was so early and cold, and everywhere was completely deserted, although Vilnius looks like a really nice place. Lots of 'baroque' buildings, and everything just looks really nice...I can't describe it..! ...
Isvaziuojam
Keliamės anksti ir isvaziuojam apie 5 valandą ryto Lenkijos pusėn. Ankstų rytą masinų visiskai nėra, todėl Lietuvą paliekam greitai ir po pusantros valandos mes jau kaimyninės Lenkijos zemėse. ...
Lithuania
We caught the Warsaw to Vilnius Train, which took approx 10 hours. We were almost left stranded on an empty train in the middle of frozen Poland before a kind little old lady told us we needed to be in ...
Lithuania - good times and bad times
... cheap, I will miss that in Germany Going out for Bowling Double Cafe The old town Kaunas The north of Lithuania (coming from Daugavpils, Latvia and crossing the border the road leads you through an amazing landscape with many lakes ...
The cold that never seems to die...
Hey, Alright I'm in Vilnius! For those of you who are uninclined geographically, Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania...the third and final Baltic country on our tour... The currency here is the lita, one lita is about $2.50 Canadian and prices ...

