Lithuania
Travel Blogs from Lithuania
Don't get Cross.
Into Lithuania and another country, currency and culture. Siaulai is also a place recently spruced up (everywhere we go, there is either building work or the metophorical smell of paint - this really is teh New Europe). The Lithuanians are ...
Baltic chill...
Vilnius Basically, we rolled in (knackered) found a nice hotel, cleaned up - and took a wander. A lovely meal was followed by lots of sleep before a midday train next day. Vilnius itself seemed lovely...but 24 hours is nothing like enough to get ...
An orgy of baroque architecture
... nights. Although the exact location of its original capital city has been lost to time, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the first established state in this region. Vilnius distinguished itself as an important cultural center when Vilnius University ...
Keletas statistiniu skaiciu
Keletas skaičių is kelionės: Nuvaziuoti 5583 kilometrai. Nufotografuotos 2372 nuotraukos (3 aparatai) Nufilmuota per 8 valandas filmo (1 aparatas) Islaidų ...
Damson Gin
... truckers like I expected and the showers were clean. We hadn't booked a cabin this time we had reserved seats for our night to Lithuania (£250 for a cabin versus £70 for seats - no contest) Luckily not many were as daft as us so there were lots of ...
Vilnius, the City of Villains
Vilnius is the quirky and beautiful capital of Lithuania. This tiny little country and its capital is known for its eccentricity and lively spirit. We got a good taste of the bizarreness during our one night stay: (1) There's a phenomenon in Vilnius ...
Bus boy!
Not too much exciting stuff going on today. Bit of a lazy start, just trying to catch up on all the travelling and that. Ill have to look into if people can get bus lag or if its only on planes. Headed over to the bus station just before lunch to pick ...
lithuania
... as we drove. It has to be said; not being in fear of my life contributes to a much more relaxed frame of mind. Lithuania's environment has suffered greatly in the years of Soviet control but a huge operation, backed by European Union money, has seen a ...
Klaipeda Day #1
Hey Friends, Ok so Lithuania is growing on me and I never even disliked it. The whole european lifestyle of walking everywhere and bistro style has just captured me. We were just discussing today how hard it will be to go back to the traffic jams and ...
Aiesec Party and Commies tower
... . Around some war monument and then the church, city hall square and the end of the peninsula where the 2 main rivers of Lithuania meet up. Then it was time to walk back, the whole tour being accompany with great discussion. I especially like the ...
In need of Sleep
... border official coming through the bus collecting our passports. Ten minutes later he was back with our passports stamped for both Poland and Lithuania. We went back to the discomfort of trying to sleep. Then all of a sudden at 03:30, the bus stopped ...
Siauliai, Lithuania
I manage to drag my sorry ass onto a bus to the 'Hill of Crosses' well a bus that stops a couple of km away and then a walk. not fun in the rain. did get chatting to a woman on the bus tho who seemed keen to speak some english - turns out she was a ...
Rokiskis, August 12, 2005 - Friday
... everyday life is its cheese, manufactured in "Rokiškio sūris", one of the largest cheese manufacturing facilities in Lithuania. Rokiškis itself used to have a vibrant Jewish community for hundreds of years. At times it even constituted a ...
Trakai Castle
A short distance from Vilnius lies the pretty island castle of Trakai, which we visited for an afternoon. The weather was really wonderful, and it was really nice walking around the lake ...
Dukstos, December 27, 2005 - Tuesday
We didn't drive long. Just a few minutes later we stopped again, this time in a village called Dūkštos. If in a bout of exceptionally good mood and generosity Sudervė might pass off for a (very) small town, Dūkštos was with its population of less ...
Off to former Poland
... of Mazury and typical Mazury vacation town of Augustyn, situated beautifully between lakes. Once we passed the border to Lithuania we noticed a couple of things. The roads got much better almost immediately. However the farms surrounding the country ...
Beautiful Castle Town
... foot of a red brick castle wall. We toured the inside which has fantastically preserved and displayed artifacts from when Lithuania was under occupation by its three kind neighbours. Also displayed were many beautiful very old pieces of art from crystal ...
A Day on the bus.
... , too good to waste on a bus trip however, these things must be done. Our travel took us through rural Poland and Lithuania. Both are very flat countries and also very green. We listened to our tour guide explain about optional excursions and then she got ...
Klaipeda
Back on the mainland in Klaipeda, we had to get some little angel souvenirs that we had seen the night we arrived in a shop window. The were still open, so we sighed a sigh of relief. With the rest of the afternoon, we wandered around the rest of ...
Vilnius, August 15, 2005 - Monday
... I was nevertheless for the first time there and every bush seemed intriguing. It was the Assumption Day today. I knew that Lithuania was basically a Roman Catholic country and that the Assumption Day was officially a day when you didn't work here. Same ...
Visaginas, August 12, 2005 - Friday
... I told him I had read that Russians, as well as all others who didn’t speak Lithuanian, had quite a few problems after Lithuania had regained its independence, and now certain doors were closed on them for that. „Is it true?“ I asked. ...
Visaginas, August 13, 2005 - Saturday
„Do you know if there's any post office around here?" R asked me. „Yes, there is. I saw it yesterday.“ „I’d have to send a few postcards,“ he said. As it’s usually the case, we were by far the first ones down for ...
Druskininkai, January 5, 2006 - Thursday
Another morning very much like the one before dawned today, which translated into grim and cold. It also meant I saw no point in going to Gruto Parkas. If Ruta had been around, we might have thought up something to do which otherwise didn't occur to me ...
Druskininkai, January 6, 2006 - Friday
Both Poland and Lithuania are catholic countries, but, so it seemed, people worked in both of them today regardless of the Epiphany. Well, all right, as I was on my vacation, it didn't matter to me much. Ruta appeared earlier than usual. Whether for the ...
La colina de la cruces
Mucho y poco se puede decir sobre este sobrecogedor lugar, no hay palabras, hay que verlo. La colina tiene mas de diez mil cruces y es el simbolo de esperanza de la nacion como lucha contra el regimen sovietico. Las cruces son dejadas por gente anonima y ...
Mintis
Pirmą kartą iskelta pati idėja vaziuot visiems bendrai kazkur į Europą artėjančią vasarą. Visa tai įvyko sėdint Akropolio Pomodoro picerijoj, laukiant kol atsidarys jų virtuvė. Nutarta ...
Naar de Curonian Spit
Na het emotioneel bezoek aan de Kruisheuvel, gingen we naar een stukje aards paradijs : de Curonian Spit. De Curonian Spit gaat van de Russische enclave van Kaliningrad tot de Litouwse kust, en biedt een vreemd lanschap van duinen, dennebomen en ...
