I think I don't need something to say about my journey through my life. Jst have a look to my photos and you will understand everything... [View Full Entry]

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We will have a baby soon... In the photos my pregnancy is 35 weeks... [View Full Entry]

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Ah! Waking up after having fallen asleep in a new place always makes me feel both refreshed and a little off-kilter. But this time it was in Klaipėda, and the town was just so gosh-darn cute we were feeling pretty good (slightly firm mattress notwithstanding). We made our way downstairs for our early-as-they-served-it breakfast in the same room as the guesthouse’s hostess. It’s strange having smørrebrød in the same room as a check-in desk, but the food was extremely tasty and duly inhaled. (Erin ponders: “What would American smørrebrød look like? I fear it would be an Eg [View Full Entry]

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Lithuania was the only country on this trip that we were passing through and not spending the night. Lithuania was also the only country that I had trouble saying. Daddy wanted to spend some time at the Hill of Crosses as he thought it looked pretty cool. When we arrived, I couldnt believe my eyes, it was a hill that was covered with SOOOOOOOOOOO many crosses. He told me I needed to count them, but I didn't even try. I had daddy buy me a cross so I could leave it there. On the way from there to Poland, I fell [View Full Entry]

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The hill of Crosses It is said that this saddle bag hill 12 km outside Siauliai was once a pagan alter. How this remote location, far from anything, came to be a holy place is unknown, but the legend describe it as such. Many centuries later it became the home to a cross or two, this is estimated to be around the 1830's, and today the saddle bag hill hosts hundreds of thousands of mainly wooden crosses placed there by pilgrims and a large part by especially Polish and German tourists. The crosses are mostly wooden and unfortunately many of them [View Full Entry]

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After Vilnius we were heading towards Siaulai at 2 oclock in the night. The plan was to take just some highway hotel like we did in Poland without problems, but we didn't see even one along the highway. So we drove into Panevėys searching for a place, but all the hotels asked for too high prices. So we went on driving to Siaulai. I already got friends with the thought of sleeping in the car at 2° and slept under a blanket on the front seat BUT around 4 oclock we arrived there and found some crappy hotel with unfriendly workers, [View Full Entry]

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Hello:) [View Full Entry]

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Hey...I came back...and it seems that summer is going to the end. But I had really great time in two children camps: in the first one (14 - 27 of June) i was as an activities leader and spend wonderful time with children, i had lots of fun and relaxing time with them. And the next shift of the camp (27 of July - 08 of August) was a bit different because I was The leader of all camp, bigger responsibility, different job, less relaxing time, games and fun. But still I am glad, that I had oportunity to manage a [View Full Entry]

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Bueno esta vez estuve visitando la ciudad de Sauliai, es la cuarta ciudad más grande de Lituania, esta a 2 horas y media de Vilnius por tren, con una población de 155.075 habitantes, aunque es la cuarta ciudad mas grande de Lituania es una ciudad pequeña pero bien bonita y la ultima que tenia pendiente por visitar, desde que decidí tomar el reto de esta aventura y con la poca documentación que pude encontrar en Internet hallé un lugar muy especial en una foto y dije “Allá tengo que ir”, eso fue como un pacto que hice conmigo mismo y [View Full Entry]

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(Day 17 on the road) After Vilnius, I went to see one of the most inspiring sites in Lithuania: The Hill of Crosses. Situated near the city of Šiauliai (pronounced shoo-lay, sounds a bit Asian to me) in the north of the country, the hill houses more than 50.000 (!) crosses. The tradition of placing crosses here dates way back (around the 14th century) and today is the finest example of Lithuanian defiance of foreign invaders. After the second World War, Lithuania was of course part of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet era, the pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses [View Full Entry]

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