Naujasis Vilnius

... eventually he arrived in a car. He was very large and seemed to have a very strangely glamorous girlfriend. Tom found it absolutely hilarious (in retrospect) when the large man almost fell over whilst taking our bags to the car..and then he drove us to a different apartment in true rally driver style, which Tom described as being like in a game of V Rally in the Corsica stage. Our apartment is MASSIVEEEE and has about 5 rooms! We were also told by this man (dubbed ...

... hour walking tour of Vilnius. Our guide is affiliated with the Riga tour that he is also conducting the tour by taking us to some out lying area of Vilnius wh**e tours don't normally go. We went to the Uzupis republic, which is east of the riv** but still in the cent** of Vilnius. This little piece of Vilnius art colony declared independence in 1997 wh**e a bunch a dream**s, artists, drunks and fun loving people used April fools day ...

... that I might pick up the footage from the festival today. That's why I returned." "And how do you like it here?" I smiled again. What should I say? Instead of an answer I posed a counter-question: "Do you want me to be honest? Or to be polite?" "Be honest." "OK," I nodded. "Vilnius is a pretty town. As a matter of fact, I like entire Lithuania. But people are often rude. I mean, you are very nice," I tried to mellow my statement a bit. "But you are also more like an exception." "I know ...

... Hell Hunt ** Catching up with three of the people we met on the Russian tour, Dale, Mat and Jodie ** Learning the story of little Toomas the city protector/weather vane on top of the Town Hall ** Learning what Kiek In De Kok really translates to :-) Our next stop was Riga, Latvia, only 4.5 hours away by bus. When we left Tallinn the weather was perfect, sunny, still, but we just knew it wouldn't last....which was true, as by ...

... independence in August 1991, Lithuanians could at last start believing their independence would hold out this time and Vilnius would be able to turn to itself. Lithuanians are today the large majority in the city once again and the town has been emerging as a modern European city, being the major economic centre of Lithuania and one of the largest financial centres of the Baltics. Pizza came and went, neither the best nor the worst I'd ever had, and I moved on. My way led me to ...

... her position at the entrance door and started letting us in one by one, tearing the tickets in the process. We entered, each one of us picked their own wooden seat and when the lady made sure we were all set and no one would come in any more, she locked the door. The cinema was small. I don't believe it could take in more than two hundred people. If at all. There were some fifteen of us. In the middle of the theatre there were two massive, rectangular, load-bearing columns which in ...

... spaventosa del museo sono le ex carceri del KGB: camere di tortura, macchie di sangue ancora sui muri e i fori dei proiettili usati nelle esecuzioni ti fanno capire in fretta che purtroppo era tutto vero. Passando a qualcosa di piu' leggero, durante questi giorni in ostello, che ancora una volta e' fantastico, ho incontrato un sacco di gente che fa il mio stesso itinerario fino a San Pietroburgo o che l'ha gia' fatto in direzione inversa: parlare con un po' di ...

... patchy clouds and about 20'c little will I realize this will be the best weather I see here. The hostel is much the those in Vienna about 26 guests, the focal point being the kitchen, no bar here. See very little of the owners the day to day running is down to a couple of fellow backpackers earning there board, an Aussie and a Scot who are both great sports. The Aussie recommends a vegetarian place around the corner for some reasonable but ...

... svirtis tokiam aparate yra aukstai, prie pat vairo, o vairas kaip krovininiuose automobiliuose - kone gulsčias... Galinio vaizdo veidrodėlių beveik nėra. Vidurinis rodo tik paties kemperio vidų, o soninius uzstoja kemperio issikisę sonai.. Bet po pirmos valandos jau viskas atrodo daug paprasčiau, gana greit adaptuojamės prie naujų sąlygų.

... etc, a million churches, the non-tourist narrow graffiti covered backroads behind all the pretty facade buildings... I also saw the crew with the job of cleaning off all the graffiti and repainting the walls, they have their work cut out for them. I also think they will repaint it many times before 2009. Perhaps if Elissa feels up to it later we'll go see some more together, it is actually really lovely and not necessary to have a map.