Sightseeing was to be the main aim of today. We were woken by the ruckus outside our window which is a phenomenal amount of glass being smashed into recycling bins. We set off in the general direction of the presidential palace. Despite having stumbled across it yesterday, we decided to start our sightseeing there so we could photo it. As we were walking down the royal way, we saw the police escorting an important looking car past us. Outside the presidential palace we saw a large group of soldiers lined up and knew something must be happening. We waited and waited, but they just stood there. Just as we were giving up we saw some movement and the band with the soldiers began to play; an important type person left the palace and got into a ... read more

Today wasn't ever going to be much more than a day 0f traveling, but we didn't know just how long we'd be traveling for. The train for Warsaw left Vilnius around twelve, so after using up our leftover money in the supermarket we boarded our train. This journey was too a tiny station at the south of Lithuania called Sestokai which we had to go to in order to avoid Belarus. It was a pretty uneventful journey but I did finish my book which was fantastic. I'm now stuck with Rob's old book which is a bad crime thriller. The train from Sestokai was an hour and a half late, which was a devil because there was nothing to do. We kept ourselves amused by playing hopscotch and watching a suicidal ant. Fun. We finally arrived ... read more

We woke early this morning, but easily fell asleep again until midday. The weather was overcast and didn't really inspire us to get up and do anything. When we did eventually get up neither of us was particularly optomistic about the day ahead. First stop was cathedral square to find the tile that the human peace chain ended at. We really couldn't find it anywhere, so after a quick look around the cathedral itself we headed up to the Gedimino tower. It was around then that we realised we were exhausted. By the time we'd climbed to the top we were shattered, this could be due to a lack of decent meals. This was duely noted. On the way down from the tower we saw the three crosses hill which is where three monks were executed ... read more

Today we got up and dressed in comfortable clothes in readiness for our journey to Vilnius. Breakfast was delicious again and appreciated more for it being our last. We went to catch the bus to Juodkrante but found that it only ran every other hour, so we had a rather pleasant hour reading by the lagoon in the sun. Juodkrante was rather fun. We left our bags in a random hotel and set off up witch's hill. This is a walk around a forest, but there are statues of witches, goblins etc scattered around. Some of the favourites included a seesaw, a slide and a really cool bench. After getting the ferry back to Klaipeda, we grabbed some food from a supermarket and headed for the train. Our train left Klaipeda at five and we arrived ... read more

We were the last to rise at half nine. A guy in our dorm told me that i'd been talking in my sleep, something about being lost and alone on an island, quite embarrassing, but I have heard other people talking in their sleep before. We packed and left early and walked the 2km to the ferry port. We got there just in time to catch a ferry over to the Curonian spit. The Curonian Spit is described in Lonely planet guide as heaven, well with the sun shining and the bus route we took, it seemed pretty heavenly. We pretty much decided on the bus that we wanted to stay an extra day, and that was before we saw the room. We walked in and instantly I thought either they'd given us the wrong room, ... read more