Europa Royale Druskininkai (Deluxe Room)

... them. Unfortunatly, came at the wrong season, or else I would love to join them in the hunt of wild mushrooms. There are 1200 species of mushrooms here in Lithuania while 380 of which are edible and 100 are poisonous. I had the grilled mushrooms with tiny bits of pork/bacon fat and covered with baked scalloped potatos. The mushrooms are very flavorful. Then I came out to the bus stop waiting for the next bus to get back in ...

... 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

... we'd picked to see if he could identify. He sat with us and another local guy for ages going through them one by one - check out the photo of one of the innocuous looking ones..........as he said, you can eat all of the mushrooms here, but some of them you eat.....only once! And man, the choice chantarelle mushrooms we picked were soooo good - never thought we'd get to the point where we'd rave about mushrooms! What have we become?

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

... problem. Two guys came out, and one of them must have been some kind of an artist. His long blonde hair pulled into a pony tail gave an obvious evidence to it. Guys were friendly and helpful. Certainly, with two more people even a stubborn car could be pushed away. Interestingly enough, while we were pushing it, this busy guy from the petrol station suddenly was not so busy any more. He came out and watched with interest what kind of fun the rest of us outside had come up ...

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 ...

... looked as if when the night club was about to open, it was the sign for the restaurant to call it a day. Why it was so, I couldn't know. But I knew that whatever the reason for it, it was not good enough for Ruta. I soon returned to the main street and it was roughly near the spot where I had veered off towards the orthodox church. Holy Virgin Mary Scapular Church was there, too, the same one Ruta and I stopped by the day before, and very close to it all, almost just across ...

... since Ruta was a high school student and last visited here. So she may not have remembered every detail any more. But precisely for that. That was then. Lithuania today is an independent country, a European Union member, proponent of free market economy and everything that goes along with it. All right, I accept that this was winter, too. But these were winter holidays, as well. All in all, one would expect the number of restaurants open in an "internationally ...

... leaving tomorrow; the only option close to it is a Riga-bound bus leaving at 7pm that stops through in the middle of the night. Instead then, I'm going to have to take an afternoon bus to Kaunas, from where I should be able to hop another bus or train for the remaining hour or two to the capital. That basically blows my intended first day in Lithuania, but at least I'll get out of Belarus in time. This is not a country where it's good to overstay one's visa. On to the next thing then. . .