Vilnius Old Town Hostel

... to it, but it's the only way. They only have the one bus a day and there are no flights direct to Tallinn. I decided to leave a day early because Tallinn seems to have some event for Tuesday Aug. 5th. Very few hotel rooms and the ones that were available were very expensive ($400+ a night). It means I'll have more time in Helsinki, which is fine with me.
That's it for today - I'm off to a reading - this time it's my fellow students.

jane

... The views from the top were ok, but there wasn't much left to be seen. Back down, we walked around through the city, looking at many different churches until we came upon the main Russian one. Inside was a glass topped coffin with three 500 year old monks inside, and they were all wearing socks. Questions swam in my head. Were their feet manky? Did their feet stink? Were they cold. As I am unable to comunicate with ...

... exit the scene. Their place is taken by two rather large men, who just rolled in inside a shiny black S-Benz. I'm thinking ganstazzzz, I'm thinking right. They're rather fascinated with me taking pictures, and one of them gets me to take his picture. I click it, and he turns his head sideways and say "OK now profile". Now just the fact that he knows what that angle is called is very unsettling. Obviously not his first time (well maybe the first time without holding up a placard with ...

... trade routes from the southern part of the town, leading from Vilnius to Minsk, for example. Having been deprived of the privilege of turning into a Soviet highway, it is nowadays "merely" an entrance to the Old Town. There is a chapel in the Gate of Dawn, constructed in 1671 by those charitable Carmelites guys from neighbouring St. Theresa's church. But it was only after the Pope John Paul II visited Vilnius in September 1993, offering up prayers and greeting the citizens from ...

... films which we were interested in, and we somehow always directed our choice according to when things were on in regard with the moment that we decided to go to the movies. This evening the numbers threw out "In Her Shoes", a romantic comedy with Cameron Diaz i Shirley MacLaine, and "Coca-Cola Plaza" again. As romantic comedies go, this is a movie genre which very seldom features surprises in the plot. Whoever goes to the cinema or ...

vilnius was another cool balkan capital. definatly worth a visit. it was pretty similar to the other 2, tallinn and riga, mand basically i just did the same ****, wandered about, got ****** and went out to a club. had a good night cuttin up the dancefloor with this big german lad, tryin to sleaze onto anythin with a pulse, needless to say we both went home empty handed so to recompense myself i opted to rob the fat couples (2 very shapely ozzies) food. just like most ...

... is that it's costing me dearly in terms of the processing fees. In total, I'm looking at the equivalent of $200 for one freakin' visa, and that's on top of the $40 I already shelled out for an invitation that I'm not going to be able to use. Now even the travel agent is giving me the run-around. It's a nuisance enough that I have to wait a week to get the bloody thing (but a plus is that I have more time to see Lithuania). Now they're telling me that the embassy ...

Today was a travelling and not much else day, but sometimes those are good (and needed). You don't need to sightsee and you don't feel guilty about not doing it. I woke up this morning and read for a bit in my bunk. I got the top again, which always feels like a crib to me and makes it much harder to make myself get up. Especially after a late night of local cider. I finished my book and got down to shower. The showers at the hostel were ...

... OK it's just that people are really suspicious and 2/3 they will be rejected. The cashier gave me a newspaper clipping and from what i could gather, the 1994 20 notes were not valid - i had 1997 notes. I couldn't be bothered arguing with them but would try the same note at the next place and hope it would be accepted! anyway, enough ramblings. The castle museum was a good one with mostly everything translated into english. It was not your ...

... cold, I guess the temperature had dropped a fair amount during the night. After we had dropped bags at the hostel we headed into town to have a coffee and plan out the next day or so. It started raining, again! Went to the KGB museum which is in the location of the old KGB headquarters. We saw the prisons that were used to hold/torture various captives of the KGB. It was quite shocking to learn that these prisons were still in use up until the early 90s. The museum gave you a real sense ...