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First Impressions
... because it is freaking COLD here. It's been snowing nonstop since I arrived. Anyway I had a meeting at my job and my instructions for the week are to go out and explore the city and just check in when I feel like it. They really want the outside prospective for the website ill be working on. Some editing work I did before I arrived is already printed in a brand new city guide, of which I am the first to use. I'm not doing terribly with the ...
Another castle
... is really nice and would really be a day trip worth from Vilnius. Perhaps next time. After Trakai it took me about half an hour to get to the limits of Vilnius but it took much longer to find a petrol station and finally the rental office. The city with all its one-way streets and closes streets in summer it definitely not the easiest to drive around. By accident I drove past the office and could return the car.
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Middle Eastern Europe
... settled here and they've kept their religion and culture till now. I went to a Kariaim restaurant for lunch, real middle eastern feeling.
Hit another old town, Vilnuis in the afternoon. Was nice. Cobbled, uneven, hell-for-people-with-disabilities streets, ornate churches, colourful old buildings, wrinkling and slightly grumpy postcard sellers etc.
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Into my first Baltic State? Does Poland count?
... bus ticket to Riga, and the agent gave me a little schedule. Included in the schedule is a stop at the airport here on the way out of Vilnius, so maybe that's standard here in the Baltics). I had a pretty ****** night on the bus; it left at 7:30 PM, but it took almost 2 hours to actually get out of the town. (The train ticket was about 12$ more, but I believe, worth it.) We arrived at 6AM, and not much is open at that time. I had wanted to have a kava ...
Warsaw and Vilnius
... carriages. In one part there were lots of soldiers and a man giving a speech next to someone who Tom thought looked like the pope but we knew it wasn't. There was also a building next to it that did have a big picture of the Pope spread across the front which Tom said it looked like he was winking in ..lol. We also went to see a building designed by Norman Foster of gherkin fame, and we were amazed by the fountain in the middle that made loads of different patterns. ...
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