DeLita Druskininkai

... innocent Lithuanian to the concentration camps in Siberia. The open park space is very clean and neatly organized with every statue standing with 3 languages describing who each one of these Soviet monsters were. The description also showed a photo where these statues were once at. The most common statues were Lenin followed by Stalin. There were also a few display rooms showing Soviet propagandas, fake polling station ...

... tried to point this out !!! Realistically, I felt sorry for it. I wanted it to hop over the fence and keep on going to safety in either Poland or Belarus !!! But then again, if it went to either, it would most probably get eaten !!! And then it was time to leave as we had a slow drive to Kaunas And Finally Was it worth the drive? Yes. Were we the only Westy tourists? Yes. Are you all impressed? **** knows, but I sure was

hi again, it might be strange to start with the last entry but I cannot help it, 'cause I am in Belarus right now, packing and getting ready for Bremen. Here are some more pics from Grodno (Belarus), which will be celebrating its 880th anniversary next week. Congrats! Bye-bye and see u soon! Tanja

... aka 'Stalin World') was set up by a Lithuanian businessman, who won a tender to house all the ex-Soviet statues that had been taken down after independance and were crumbling in backlots of various government buildings. In his 2sqkm back yard he built a landscaped park full of Stalins, Lenins, and other maniac Soviet dictators, together with sombre placards that gave some home truths about some of their less savoury ...

Hi all, this travel blog is still work in progress. It might take some time before I update some entries and upload all the photos. Sorry about this and thank u for ur patience! My home town Grodno I marked as a starting point for my trip PHOTO_ID_L=4-grodno.jpg Tanja

... to pay and left to eat. I mean, she went to eat as I had just eaten earlier, not knowing she would be so early today. When she was done, the only thing left to do was fill the fuel tank and depart for Vilnius. So that's how it was. Our plan went ahead brilliantly right up to the moment when we filled the tank and were about to start the engine again. And then, even if it had been starting all these days without any major snags and every time - including today - towed Ruta to ...

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 while on my own. This way, though, I decided to repeat by now my common walk to supermarket and ...

... like in entire Lithuania, the majority of population have always been Roman Catholics. But Lithuania has seen more than its fair share of foreign armies sweep in from everywhere, and there has never been any shortage of those who were seeing it, with larger or smaller success, as being there just up for grabs. So throughout the history peoples of other faiths and nations regularly settled in here. Some of those were Russians. In 1865 they had built themselves this lovely ...

... pong tables, should we desire to play some. There were two TV sets, one in the kitchen with dining room, and another in one of the sleeping rooms. That other one even had at least hundred satellite channels on disposal. Maybe in part because we were not necessarily at the peak of the tourist season, all that was cheaper than in a hotel. I could ascertain that Ruta had chosen well. The guy left us a key and then disappeared. All that dragged considerably out so it ...

... nice, Unfortunately, both were obliterated in World War II, and the Soviets took plenty of liberties rebuilding them as a drab, neo-classical palace and a boring concrete would-be fortress. There's also a 12th-century church in parkland overlooking the river on the fringe of downtown, but strangely only half of the original stone structure survives (the other half being filled in by unexceptional wooden construction). The one thing I can say about it is that I've certainly never ...