Lietuva Vilnius

... dass ist wie eine gnadenlose Strafe für mich... Ich muss immer schwarzen Kaffee trinken, die verstehen nicht, wenn ich mit Milch sage. Ich mache alles richtig, wie es in der Karte steht. Aber anscheindend gibts für Kaffee mit Milch und Zucker einen Geheimcode oder das ist eine Form von Rassismus. Außländer müssen schwarz trinken. Lieber also keinen Toast bestellen.... ;) Tja, aber oh Wunder die verwöhnte Deutsche stellt fest: Auch mit Blasen an ...

... where i'm going to stay tomorrow!!!! NOR do i have flight to Italy next week!! fun, fun!! Ok...going to the National Museam... --------------------------- I went to the top of the Museam. This Tour was built as a gift from the Russias to the Polish people. They had a choice of the Museam or a Railway. They choose the Museam. After that i went and had lunch and met Dorta at the Jew Cemetry. Since it was Friday after 3pm it was closed. We then walked around ...

... right there, so in a way this was an anticlimax. But what could I say? So I said the only thing I could really say: "It's all right. What really matters is that I do get the footage if possible." "We will send you the footage. Only, we can't give it to you in professional beta format unless you or your recording label pay for it. Or maybe if we get something in exchange from Croatian Television." We agreed he would send me the footage as a common DVD-R as soon as it was finished ...

... And that's how it was. I opened the door, ever so slightly, just so I could check. And almost right by the doorjamb, on a low and small table, there was a wooden plate. Truth to say, what I had eaten in Visaginas had been both more and better. But things should be regarded in realistic light and from the positive side. First, I was staying in "Litinterp" and not in "Shakespeare" across the street, which meant you get as much music as you pay. In other words, I couldn't expect a ...

... the main gate into the castle. That was where everyone was headed, that was where we were headed and so we entered that castle museum. The Castle consists of two basic parts, a U-shaped grand ducal palace, and the bailey. The construction of the castle started with Grand Duke's palace, but tourists today enter the Castle through the bailey. As soon as we entered, we were first greeted by a look at a crowd of people. Many of them crawled up and down several wooden stairways and ...

... is baroque, and the Grand Dukes ruled over large territories and had strong alliances with Poland. Estonia and Latvia are strongly Lutheran, but have different architecture and completely different languages, and have been under the dominance variously of Germany, Sweden and Russia, etc. Interestingly there are a number of English-language journals published, covering all 3 countries. One of them is called CityPaper and it's Editor-in-Chief is an Australian woman of ...

... I return to the hostel to see if my credit card has finally arrived, it hasn't and an examination of my e-mail provides an explanation why because it has arrived at my parents house. (this will be my last mention of this annoying episode until I actually receive the card but it is easily the thing that has caused me and in turn my parents the most vexation on several occasions on this journey). Spend the rest of the afternoon walking the more ...

... at a supermarket. I'm lucky coze I'm starving and this way, I'll be able to complete the bread and cheese I've got remaining from Warsaw! :) After being a few things, I seat down under the shade and am greeted a good meal by people passing by. Nice attitude from these Lithuanian people who give me a slight impression of being somewhat more easygoing than Poles. But who can know within 2h time? This meal is even luxury as I've got ...

We have a nice hotel close to the old town of Vilnius which is a couple of hundred years less old than Riga but still old. Amber is the stuff they want to sell you here - dozens of shops selling small to large lumps as jewellery or even chess sets. Yesterday we went on a local bus ride to the old capital at Trakai with a castle on an island in a lake - exceptionally picturesque. Tonight we are off to a national park where we are staying in a private home and eating Lituanian food ...