Vila Diemedis Palanga
Daukanto 11 Palanga, Lithuania
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The world’s longest spit
... Chris shared a 1 meter long sausage that was apparently delicious.
The next morning we caught a ferry out to the Curonian Spit, which is a giant sand bank 98km long, half owned by Lithuania and half by Russia and drifting slowly into the Baltic Sea by 4m a year. We met with a local guide and boarded a public bus. We stopped at Witches Hill, a section of forest containing wooden sculptures depicting local legends that were carved around 30 years ago and are ...
Klaipeda
... before and ended up in one of their spare bedrooms in the beach side apartment at a fairly reasonable price. The old lady that owned the apartment couldn't speak English, but could speak Lithuanian, Russian and German. Using some basic German (with help from my Europe phrasebook) we were able to communicate.
I didn't stay in the apartment long as I only had one afternoon to explore the small town. I ...
Curonian Spit & Computer "Spits" It.
... building in Klaipeda, with spectacular views over the Spit. The rain had now stopped and we could see right across to the other side from our dinner table.
Back to our room and in excellent spirits from a great day and a night out, disaster struck big time. Our computer fell off the bed ever so gently, but not so gently that it decided it could suffer the fall. The screen was just a jumble of coloured lines and ...
We are sailing...we are sailing
... down would be carrying other cars after us above. This, when discharging, meant we would be last off and last to the Lithuanian customs and immigration. If they were anything like the Poles in Gdansk (Danzig) in 1991 then we might be still at the port for some 4 hours after arriving. You can’t argue with these people and they don’t give a damn about first-on-last-off as I spoke to one of the loading officers. That’s when ...
A Day's R&R
... indeed, last year they weren’t used at all, I don’t think. Still, we were making good progress and by 10:45 or so we had the engine on and were approaching the mouth to the canalised river, the Juru Kanalas. We had to keep to one side, avoiding shallows and a wreck that was reputed to be there, as a large vessel overtook us.
We were soon in the Cruise Terminal Harbour, the only area that is open to visiting yachts now that ...



