Nida, a small resort town

Trip Start Jun 22, 2009

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Trip End Nov 03, 2009

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Flag of Lithuania Nida, Lithuania
Saturday, July 4, 2009

I buy my bus ticket to Liepaja, Latvia for Monday. I was planning on Sunday but was told no Sunday trips and while there used to be 3 busses a day, it is now only 1. I infer that the economic downturn has hit the tourist industry pretty heavily.

Since there is no breakfast at the hostel, I stop by a grocery store for some danish and yogurt drink. I am sun burnt from yesterday. My Nivea lotion is to thick for use on the body. I am directed to a pharmacy. The least expensive is $30 for a decent sized tube. Oh well.

I am off to Nida, a beach resort town on the Curonian Spit. Pretty place with a nice beach. It is a 15 minute walk to the beach. The beaches have a much larger crowd than yesterday. This seems more of a vacation place whereas yesterday was the local beach

Nida

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Back is still bad but gets better (still a 6 on a pain scale) over the day.

Clouds come in around 3 and it gets cold. People head back to town. Most are staying in Nida but I start the 1.5 hour trip back.

For dinner, I look for a steak house that has an excellent reputation. I don't have enough info to pinpoint it exactly. After 30 minutes and starving, I give up. I go back to the caf� hot spot from yesterday. As I walk into the courtyard, I see the restaurant in the back. There are several restaurants which appear to merge. I am apparently sitting in the are of one restaurant but am able to order from the menu of the steak house. Steak was OK. Service was terrible. I think the steak had been sitting out for awhile. In the US, I would send it back but too difficult with the waiter’s limited English.