Ratonda Hotel Vilnius

... die mal Latein gehabt haben: Litauisch ist fast genauso. Nur dass man die 7 Fälle tatsächlich anwenden muss und die werden durch Werben und Präpositionen ausgelöst. Das Wort Kommunikationsproblem trifft es nur im Kern, die ganze Tragödie die dran hängt ist kaum in Worte zu fassen... Ich kann niemandem was erzählen, geschweige denn fragen oder mich beschweren. Ich bin unter hunderten von Menschen und muss gezwungener Maßen die Klappe halten. Ihr könnt euch ...

I got up at 7am to pack and get read for my day...i got my bus ticket last night. I leave at 11pm and i get to Viluias at 9am!! 10 hours on a bus is not going to be fun!! CRAZY!! Well, i left the flat again with Andre to his work. I just started walking to the city center...and hoop on a bus and then walked again. I got to the KFC again at 10:20 cuz it has free internet. So i got some coffee and some fruit yogurt for less then 10Lz. So it's not bad. So i don't ...

... of yet another thing which only confirmed my answer given in the street earlier on what I thought about Lithuanians. But once we had a seat and started talking, Mr Vilimas was much friendlier. He even told me he had friends in Croatia and thereby steered our conversation into less formal waters. It turned out the footage had not been edited yet. "I was on a vacation," he explained. "I've just started working on some things which have been waiting for me." I was hoping to get hold of the ...

The exhaustion that had accumulated in me since my arrival in Lithuania started to show. Actually, to come out of me. All by myself in my room at last, finally with a decent bathroom before the bed time and dead tired when last night I had crawled into my bed, I woke up this morning after almost nine hours of sleep. For someone like me, particularly in a completely new bed, nine hours were almost unreal. I'd been told the breakfast would wait for me outside the room door when I woke up ...

... just a few hours this season. The Neris river is the second biggest Lithuanian river, even if it was actually more Byelorussian than Lithuanian. But it is difficult to expect from a small country like Lithuania to have a river of a more significant length that considers available territory large enough for itself, without stretching out into the neighbourhood. The Neris river is spanned by a number of bridges. I counted seven on the city map. Vilniaus gatvė emerged onto Zaliasis ...

... we agreed that he had addressed us in Russian because he obviously couldn't speak any other foreign language and Russian served him as lingua franca whenever he saw a foreigner. We crossed one bridge, came up to another, leading up directly to the castle, stuck to the railing again and finally found ourselves by the Castle itself. The first section of the Castle consists of a rectangular yard surrounded by a stone wall, with six towers of different sizes. The tower facing the city ...

... been to the 3 Baltic countries I think I will give a little summary. Most people, including myself, tend to lump them together as if they were virtually the same. However, this is not true - you could almost say that apart from sharing the Baltic coastline, being flat, and having been dominated by the Soviet Union (and wanting to be independent countries), they have no more similarities than other countries that are close to each other. Lithuania is strongly Catholic, the ...

... worthy, but the real impact of the museum, which is based in the old court house turned KGB headquarters, is the basement prison. In particular, the walk from the cell of the condemned to the execution room, which for over 700 people was their last and that you can retrace today, is very sobering indeed. Bullets holes mark the wall and artifacts exhumed from the mass grave outside town are strewn below the glass floor. In an understandably dark ...

... of a dodgy road, he makes a real cool thing! He calls for any driver heading to Vilnius by his CB. So, we pull over at a patrol station and I just have to jump from one truck to another! So easy!! :)) This new driver is nice! But he speaks Lithuanian, Russian and German. I can't really help! And I don't feel like spending much energy on being inventive onto universal language. So we don't speak much. He drops me in the outskirts of ...

... this area that is supposed to be independent from Lithuania and Vilnius. Just a bunch of artists and other interesting people living there. They have their own constitution thats pretty funny to read (you have the right to love, cats don't need to obey their master, etc). Overall it was a bit of a let down, not really that weird. Nothing compared to Christiana in Copenhagen. Off to Gdansk, Poland tonight with a damn night bus. Working my way over to Munich slowly for Oktoberfest.