Ecotel Vilnius Hotel

... Aber ich hab mir mein Leben noch nie auf "Very Easy" eingestellt. Sonst schockt es nicht und man hat alle Missionen sofort fertig. So ist das jedenfalls bei Pharao!
Also: Studium in Worms, Wohnort in Mannheim, tränenreich hinter mir gelassen, kurzer aufenthalt in der Munderlohschen Heimat, abgejettet nach Vilnius, da sitz ich jetzt. Und was weiter kommt lest ihr ja dann!
So jetzt mache ich mich auf den Weg in die Sonne, solang die hier noch scheint!

I am on the bus and it stops at 1am and then again at 4am. It looks like we are in Russia! It's crazy...i'm glad i had my iPhone GPS with me so i can keep track of where we are...hehehe. I took some sleeping pills and it only kicked in at 2am. We got to Vilnuis 1 hour early. I was going to meet up with a CS at 9am, but since i got there at 8am i went and got breakfast. I booked a hostal in Old Town Vilnius ...

... Kalinausko gatvė and passed by the Romanov's Church again. From there on I went to the long Jono Basanavičiaus gatvė which in extension turned into Konarskio gatvė. And it was there that after some half an hour or a bit more on foot I found the Lithuanian Television building. I entered, introduced myself at the entrance and said I had an appointment with Mr Jonas Vilimas. A uniformed woman working at the entrance picked up the phone, typed away some number and then told me to wait a ...

... duerfte so einfach sein wie im osten Bananen im Konsum anzutreffen. Also vergessen mers mal und fahren vorraussichtlich weiter ueber polen...bis dann ach ja, was noch auffaellt...in riga hatten ne menge leute zuviel geld. Da reicht net ein porsche, sondern es muss zumindest ein chayenne S sein, ason martin oder Bugatti oder Bentley is natuerlich noch besser...wie waers mit nem Maserati? nur ferarri is anscheinend out...zu billig? Dafuer ...

... extolling and representing such socrealist parade horses like agriculture, industry and construction, peace and that old Soviet chestnut, youth. And one may be wondering why such blatantly communist symbols are still intact. There do seem to be a few who'd like to see them gone, but the majority of the local population seems to be rather fond of them, if only because they're funny. The Church of St Raphael the Archangel and the adjacent Jesuit monastery stand right on the bank of ...

... I don't believe I would have been any better if I had been there in his stead. As Ruta and I drew closer, he must've noticed we were foreigners. Well, that I was a foreigner. After all, Sasha had told me as far back as Visaginas that it was visible on the spot who was no local. And so he interrupted his playing for a moment and addressed us in Russian. "He thinks you're a Russian," Ruta told me laughing. "No. He thinks you're a Russian. I don't look like a Russian," I answered ...

... in WW2 and the Great Synagogue badly damaged, and it was finally destroyed by the Soviet authorities later. On the morning of my departure I drive to the official Geographical Centre of Europe as calculated by the French National Institute of Geography in 1989, 26kms north of Vilnius. Not too far away is the Park of Europe, another huge sculpure park, but I don't have time to see it as my train leaves at at 11.41 - I just make it, arriving at 11.40 - traffic was bad. Now that I ...

... connection between Zappa and Vilnius its importance, and that of the self-declared artist's republic elsewhere in the city, is it represents an explosion of free, if frivolous, expression in the immediate aftermath of independence. The next stop highlights what they were so relieved to be free of, the museum of genocide is not easy going by anyones standards, but having studied this period I s[end almost 3 hours there. The exhibits upstairs are a ...

... neither bus nor train is needed as I wait less than 20 min before a Slovenian truck pulls over. The driver is Lithuanian actually. In English, Polish and a bit of German, we manage to have conversation. Well, at least to share some general information about where we're from and where we're going. And a bit more fortunately! :) He only goes to Kaunas (I just say it so that you check where it is!) but instead of dropping me on any ...

... around. One of the parks has a huge hill on it that you can over look the city, pretty nice. Although its a pretty city, there isn't a whole lot to really do here. I needed a taste of home, so I made myself a sausage and pepper roll with melted cheese. It was so ****ing good. After drinking a few beers at the hostel I went out with 3 Americans and an Aussie. Blacked out and had to piece the night together with pictures. No hangover though which was awesome. Today I walked ...