Blogs from Kaunas, Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe

petite erreur dans le blog précédent si cela n'a pas été corrigé car déjà publié : Trakai et Vilnius se trouvent bien en Lituanie et pas en Pologne !!! Nous voici donc à Kaunas... J'arrive à situer le camping à JJ les yeux fermés !!! il ne s'en souvient plus mais pas grave car je le mènerai bien à l'arrêt du trolley bus qui nous mènera en ville... Là grande surprise car nous nous trouvons directement dans le bain d'une fête que j'appellerais folklorique... la fête de la tradition. C'est ainsi que les gens chantent, dansent, etc... dans leurs plus beaux habits nationaux... de petits stands vous offrent les produits du pays. Je vous laisse revivre avec nous cette fête car les visages souriants (enfin !) de ces gens faisaient plaisir à voir...... read more

Hello my fellow travellers! After an early start, that involved an unexpected radio interview about couch surfing and travelling, I fled the Swedish Midsummer's festivities in favour if the Lithuanian Summer Solstice festivities. I will be staying for two days in Kaunas with Paulius and Rūta whom stayed with me a couple of years ago. Unfortunately we only got to meet briefly as they are going to their home village 100 km away from here but they are kind enough to lend me their apartment while I'm here. From here I will continue to Vilnius where I will stay with a new girl but also meet up with Roberta who also stayed with me last year. Today I mainly just walked around in central Kaunas with a short break together with Paulius, Rūta and Rūta's sister ... read more

This blog entry is coming to you from Kaunas, Lithuania, but it isn't supposed to. It is supposed to be coming from Minsk, Belarus, a place that I have this strange obsession about visiting. My original plan was to take an overnight train from St Petersburg to Minsk before flying out of Vilnius, Lithuania, which is only a two hour bus ride from Minsk and from where there are cheap flights back to London. Four days before I left the UK for Russia however, the Belarusian embassy in London put paid to Plan A - I had applied for the cheaper "transit" visa for my visit to Belarus which would have allowed me in the country for 48 hours, but my application was refused on the basis that there is no physical need to go through ... read more

An diesem Tag habe ich mir morgens das ehemalige Stadtzentrum von Königsberg mit dem Dom und der alten Börse angesehen. Viel mehr ist auch nicht mehr übrig. Das neue russische Zentrum hat mich nicht interessiert und es war auch weiter vom Hotel entfernt. Am Nachmittag habe ich auf den Bus nach Kaunas gewartet und bin dort abends angekommen.... read more