We are home safe and sound now after a fantastic holiday in Lithuania. The food was excellent, the people friendly, we learnt a lot and and really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks go to everyone we met (or met again) and especially to Rita for making us feel so welcome. I will definitely be back, perhaps in [...]
Our plans to see the Soviet Theme park today were hampered for the same reason as yesterday, far too far to travel if you set out at 11am. Journey from Vilnius would have included two sparsely running buses and a 30 minute walk. The park contains recovered sculptures of prominent Soviet leaders that were built [...]
After failing to make breakfast this morning we discovered that our first choice of destination today was over 3 hrs drive away. Without a car or ability to drive this was pretty much out of the question. A shame really because it looked really exciting, we wanted to visit the Hill of Crosses. Story has [...]
Gosh, well most of today was spent recovering from the fun that was last night. Emerging for lunch Simon and I headed out in search of ‘Saint Germain‘ which turned out to be the best food we have had here yet. Quite hard to find but well worth it.
Taking a bike-cab back to the hotel [...]
There are many reasons why I didn’t update this mini travel journal last night.
It was a bit of a relaxing day yesterday, I had a lovely long holiday lie in and met Simon for Lunch. We explored the outskirts of the old-town in the search for a resteraunt we found on the interwebs described as [...]
From our room you can see in the distance a lovely Russian Orthadox church peeping through the trees with green domes. Looking in the guidebook there was no sign of this particular church but there were a few Byzantine Russian churches scattered through the city. As Simon was still writing his slides for the talk [...]
I learnt a lot about the Lithuanian culture and customs today. Simon is presenting tomorrow so he stayed at home working on his slides while I stretched my wings to the outskirts of the city and the amazingly large shopping mall there.
I met Rita about lunchtime and she showed me how to flag down one [...]
Vilnius greeted us with a torrent of ran as we landed late last night. It was still was a more than a little soggy this morning when we set out after breakfast. After stopping to buy umbrellas, Simon and I still made the most of the town. Walking around taking in some of the sights [...]
In the rather dodgy movie rental shop down Botley road (that shall remain nameless) there is a rusty cigar tin with a hole crudely carved into the lid. A sign on the side affixed with aging sellotape is a sign in wobbly marker pen that reads “AFRICA APPEAL, PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY”. I was curious.
Me: Are [...]
Running to catch the train this afternoon, I had a bit of a shock as I almost fell over this whopper! …
Absolutely massive snail! I have truly never seen one this big in England before (The one I saw in the zoo doesn’t count!). The shell was roughly the size of a golf ball with [...]
