Lietuva Vilnius

... 18 seats on it - including the driver. We were lucky to get a seat - at the very back - and I'm sure we were the only tourists. Total cost of the half hour trip - 5 litas - which is about $2.50 Cdn. A real deal.

We were dropped off at the bus station - a short walk from the old town - and now I plan to do some more reading for Monday's sessions. A stage is being set up in the town hall square so I might venture out later.

that's it for now

jane

... Soviets had blown up the old crosses, and their remains were below, but like a phoenix, it arose from the ashes and three new crosses arrived. The sunset was quite nice as well. And basically, that was our time in Vilnius And Finally So to answer my first question. Beer was cheap if taken away, and the women? Well my Mum always said, "check out the mothers to see what they grow into", and looking at them, no thanks !!!

... Church. Actually, it was the Orthodox church of St Michael and St Constantine, complete with ornate façade decorations and trademark onion domes, which for some reason was called the Romanov's. Right by the Kalinausko gatvė there was the Taraukanis park. A bit tired of all those churches, but even more so from surprisingly strong Lithuanian sun, I decided to have a breather. I entered the park, found a bench in the shadow and there amidst all the peace and quiet took out my ...

... dead, so we left and went to Vilnius. We got lost trying to find the city camping which wasn't quiet open but they let us stay for the night anyway. Vilnius was a nice place, very done up, but still had charm. This place is the city of churches, every second building is a church, and big beautiful things they were too. We met an Australian couple when we went to the tourist office looking for polish camp maps. They had ridden ...

Hello, The first morning we visited a park at the geographical center of Europe with her Dad. The park was filled with contemporary and modern sculptures. The air was bitter cold but the snow crunched under each step. We followed with a heatry Lithuanian lunch of pickled herring, hot potatoes and beet soup, yummy. The Next day we traveled a bit further form Vilnius to the famous castle of the ...

Well, we're back in the land of squat toilets and bottled water, but the sights and history in Lithuania have made up for the little hassles of traveling here so far...,.mostly. We have noticed a certain propensity for surly locals the further East we head in Europe, and the hostel staff and train conductor people have been the most unpleasant we've encountered so far. I guess it is high season for tourism at the moment and while it's all ...

... means the overnight bus to Poland tonight will be a happy medium :) By the time I reached Vilnius, it was definitely time for some food, Cili Pica by the bus station won out again. Yummy cold beet soup and pizza for me. I need to learn how to make that soup! I've developed quite the addiction. Went back to the station and finally had a victory over the payphone! I felt rather stupid once I figured it out, but live and learn. Maybe this ...

We caught the Warsaw to Vilnius Train, which took approx 10 hours. We were almost left stranded on an empty train in the middle of frozen Poland before a kind little old lady told us we needed to be in the rear two carriages, as these were the only two going on to Lithunia!! We then had to change trains in Sestokai where we met our first Lithuanians. Three drunk blokes with one ...

... the Independent Republic of Uzupis. I didnt really understand how it all worked but there was lots of grafitti and drunks around. I watched 2 drunks point and pray to some statue and laugh for a while. I should have taken a picture. The first day there was spent wandering around going to the Frank Zappa statue which wasnt worth a picture, and going to yet more churches and a KGB prison which was pretty cool. It had all these interrogation techniques like to put people on small stands ...