We woke early today in prep for our trip to Klaipėda -- especially me, as my sore throat kept me from sleeping past 3:30. We grabbed a quick breakfast at home and made our way to the airport. Riga International is a pretty nice airport; they had a drugstore, which was important for acquiring some ibuprofen, and a post office, where we mailed a bunch of postcards, and a souvenir shop with some of the things we’d not been able to find elsewhere (a Latvia patch for me, a small bottle of Black Balzsams liqueur for Graham), and a cafe that [View Full Entry]

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Today we went to the Curonian Spit. This involved us having to get up relatively early to make sure that we had breakfast and were at the ferry terminal in time for the 9am ferry. The hotel that we were staying at actually delivers breakfast to your room in a little wicker basket, so we had all asked for our breakfasts to be delivered at 8am to make sure that we had lots of time to eat and get ready to meet our tour guide at 8:45am. Unfortunately the breakfasts still hadn't arrived at 8:30am. MK and I have a [View Full Entry]

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Today was a bit of a travel day. But the good news was that the travel day only started at 11:45 so we had most of the morning free. MK, Jen and I decided to head off to the Coffee House for breakfast, where I had the most delicious bowl of porridge. The only hitch in the plan was the fact that we had to walk past 3 of the stores to find one that was open. Apparently they all only open at 9am - not sure what all the office workers who want coffee before work do. After our delicious [View Full Entry]

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Day 6-7 (May 8-9) The following day was another bus journey to our next destination, Klaipeda on the Curonian spit in Lithuania, but not such an early start. We travelled through more amazingly green countryside. We arrived to find that we had a converted guest house which had two adjoining rooms sharing a small lounge area. More importantly it had a kettle so we were able to make our own coffee. Kettle’s in rooms is not the norm in Europe, apparently, so this was a real treat. (it’s funny how small things please when you don’t have them). Dinner was local [View Full Entry]

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Klaipéda, 3e ville de Lithuanie apres Vilnius et Kaunas et premier port du pays. On peine a croire que pres de 200'000 personnes vivent ici. Dimanche apres-midi, le soleil brille et les rues du centre ville sont presque désertes. Il est vrai qu'il fait frisquet, mais il y a plus d'ambiance au centre ville de Monthey un apres-midi de semaine qu'ici ! Au point qu'on dirait que tous les bistrots et restos sont fermés. Eh non ! Il faut simplement oser pousser la porte et entrer. Tenez ! Je suis passé devant un resto au nom évocateur : Taverna Ferdinandas. Sans [View Full Entry]

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Hola después de 15 días tengo otra historia que contar, bueno por aquí también se celebra el día del trabajo entonces desde el 1 hasta 4 tuvimos libre y quería aprovechar el tiempo para conocer algo nuevo estaba pensando ir a Estonia y Finlandia pero finalmente decidí quedarme en lithuania y conocer mas de este país porque ese es el principal objetivo de este viaje conocer lo que pocos me pueden contar o leer en las guías turísticas y que yo les estoy compartiendo ahora!!! Bueno estuve en las playas de Lituania y en una península, la ciudad que tiene las [View Full Entry]

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Bueno creo que es tiempo ya de contarles mas experiencias, hace días fui a un castillo muy famoso llamado Trakai que queda en un pueblo con el mismo nombre y es muy visitado por turistas de todo el mundo esta situado en medio de 2 montañitas pequeñas, bosques y lagos, este castillo fue un importante centro político y militar de los grandes duques y reyes de este país, el pueblo de Trakai es también conocido porque allí viven los karaimes (gente que habla el lenguaje turco) y que todavía viven en este pueblo y preservan sus tradiciones, también pude probar la [View Full Entry]

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(Day 12 on the road) From Berlin I took the train up to the island of Ruegen in the north of Germany, and from there I caught a ferry to Klaipeda in Lithuania. The ferry ride was smooth. The only time a bit of action arose when I decided to burn a piece of paper in my cabin. The crew of the vessel were not amused at all about this, as I soon found out when about seven crew-members appeared outside my door :-) After mediterranean Antalya and hip Berlin, Klaipeda was somewhat of an anticlimax. The guidebook I was reading [View Full Entry]

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At half past eight we left our backpacks in the cell and went for a quick look at Karosta naval port. We couldn't find anything of interest and there wasn't much of anything else. Karosta was still a pretty eerie place even in daylight. People just stood on their balconies and stared at us. Almost like a horror movie. Back in Liepaja we caught a bus to Klaipeda which took around two hours. Funnily there were about eight of us who got off our bus and walked over the car park to the hostel. Luckily we'd booked earlier in the morning [View Full Entry]

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In klaipeda we were received in tha hostel by Alyna. we had to take of our shoes ( felt nice...saudade) and i obeyed with a happy smile on my face. i notived imediately a portuguese flag a portuguese flag in the kitchen! at the hostel we met a great couple, Joses&yekaterina, who acompanied us in the next day. A beautifull day. had a meal of milk, cepelinaz ( a rugby shaped potato with meat...), and mushroom soup grebiene server inside dark bread. We went to see the kuronian spit, a natural reserve ( it is that great "tongue" of sand that [View Full Entry]

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