Best Western Santakos Hotel Kaunas

WELL WHAT CAN I SAY THIS OPENS YOUR EYES SLIGHTLY,<br>THERE I GO , WELL FIRSTLY VERY WARM PEOPLE, FELT LIKE A KING ALL OF ELINAS FAMILY, MADE ME FEEL VERY WELCOME, <br>KLAIPED'A IS WHERE WE STAYED EVERYBODY LIVES IN APARTMENTS WELL THAT'S THE WAY IT SEEMED, VERY FEW HOUSES. FANTASTIC BEACHES YES THAT'S RIGHT WHITE SANDS , BIT COLD WHEN I ...

... Es wird immer einmal die Woche gekocht. Ich hab mich schon bereit erklärt meine deutsche Spezialität zu kochen: Rouladen mit Knödeln und Rotkohl.. oh ich bekomm Hunger... <br>Ich hoffe das das alles so weitergeht. Tomas hilft mir eine Wohnung zu finden. Er führt Telefonate und fährt mit mir dort vorbei und verhandelt. Bis jetzt war noch nichts dabei. Naja, morgen gehts zur Taufe! Dann mehr davon!<br>Liebste Grüße<br>Eure Martina<br>

... on with the boring stuff, like washing the kids and clothes.<br><br>We have crossed Europe, shedding socks as we go. I know we left a pair in northern Poland, and one on a beach in Latvia. I'm pretty sure we lost two more in Tallinn. Now, in Lithuania, I discovered I have gained a pair of Nick's boxers, which somehow failed to fly home ...

... in a mixture of languages not including English, but relying heavily on hand signals. He made it quite clear that the route chosen was wriggly and slow. He even used that internationally understood description "Scheiße". <br><br>I chose a new route with my new friend's help and set off. I had plenty of time, but I was still un-nerved when a few minutes later my phone bleeped to tell me I'd gone through a new time zone and I had one hour less to get to Kaunus airport to ...

... painting of Napoleon in 1812 preparing to invade Russia via the Passage at Nieman. I asked the waiter (who did have some English) where is Nieman? About 3 kms away he said. Anyway, that is my 2nd blog entry finished tonight, and I will try to load both up, but I will not try to do photos tonight. I'm tired & we have a long day tomorrow. Actually we return the car in Vilnius at 1 pm, so we should get at least a day-time first look at this city. Goodnight from Kerry & David in Kaunas

... for the church was brought all the way from Jerusalem's Mount Olive as far back as 1934. But enter the Nazis and the World War II, and then Stalin and the Soviets right on their heels, and you'll know why the church was consecrated only one year before my visit there. Not knowing that I had missed out on the city panorama, I started descending in the downtown direction. And straight away I saw yet another spectacular sight. Between the street buildings, above the tree-tops, another ...

... put on to baking paper and fold it up like a present. Last step, put it into the fridge and wait a few hours. What you get when you unfold the paper is Tinginys, the solidified cold 'cake'. For your information, Tinginys translates literally as 'lazy'. Now to the actually reason for going to the town... I got a terrible cold when I was in Raseiniai and it lasted a while after, but all in all the eating glut was a nice weekend away.

... rather than go through the hassle of finding a place to stay the night. Kaunas is nice for a morning and afternoon, but Vilnius easily outstrips it when it comes to real action. Tomorrow I'm heading off a little further to the port city of Klaipeda near the Baltic coast. My Russian visa isn't supposed to be ready until Tuesday afternoon, so I have a few more days to kill yet. At least this way I'll get a good general impression of what Lithuania has to offer.

... building. For anyone who has seem a Russian church, you can imagine how retarded these drain pipes looked. The silly thing about it is that they would leak water all over the place because there were at least 25 joins in each pipe and going by simple probability, the more joins, the more holes and so on. Clever people built that (or maybe I am just picky?). Anyway my host's house was hilarious - it was the tiny room in a corridor that was ...

... der trip hat sich schon nach 27 stunden trampen und der haelfte der strecke gelohnt!!! heute muss ich nicht trampen, ieva, elmas freundin nimmt mich mit. in einem lederbmw. nun, heute sind parlamentswahlen, ihr vater hat gute chancen auf nen sitz, ihr wisst also was laeuft. vielleicht mach ich schon morgen weiter nach riga, litauen ist auf jeden fall ne reise wert!!! bis bald an alle, ich hoffe ich habe euch heute nicht mit meiner unsortierten begeisterung zu sehr verwirrt!