Read this article on Roadjunky at http://www.roadjunky.com/article/1789/travelling-in-lithuania The cold, dark bus hurtled through the Lithuanian countryside. I was heading to Kaunas and not looking forward to my impending homelessness when I arrived at midnight. I’d arrived in the city of Siauliai earlier that evening, hoping to stay for the night. After searching in vain for a hotel or anything else that was open, I was forced to get back on the bus without dinner or a drink. I regretted ever leaving lovely Estonia to come to this country full of boring landscapes, unp [View Full Entry]

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Last days in the Baltics. It would be easy to say I have a grasp on this area of the world, but like many of these old cultures, it is hard to understand the mind set of the people without living amongst them for some time. However, during my 2 or so weeks of travelling around this, very Eastern, part of Europe, I feel glad to have come here, and happy with my time, and the people who I have met along the way. Before making my next trip Belarus, I looked around Vilnius and felt somewhere entirely different to either [View Full Entry]

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well, its certainly been a pleasant few days. as im walking around these wide streets i always think of a million and one things to write about, but then sit me in front of a computer and my mind goes blank, only thinking about really menial things. but then all of my blogs are centered around menial things, so maybe that isnt so bad. anyway, if i remember correctly there were 3 things i wanted to go on about, so lets get cracking. first of all, a pretty lovely human interchange that happened on wednesday afternoon. i went to sigulda, which [View Full Entry]

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Lithuania and Vilnius.. A place that has now changed me in so many ways by the time I had left the country to be heading back to Australia. First stop in Lithuania was the hill of crosses and i remember thinking this is one creepy place.. It is not just one hill of crosses either, the whole area is completely covered in them and an amazing sight when first seen. It is hard to get to though from the city that is close by if not having a car. It ended up a local bus trip, guessing where to get of [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, July 12’Th It’s a strange thing not to a trip by taking the bus to Billund. But I have moved to Aarhus, so the bus to Billund is of no use today. Instead it’s the train bound for Copenhagen. My Air Baltic plane leaves for Vilnius at 8.30 pm. The flight takes about 1½ hour, and with the difference in time on one hour it’s about 11 pm as we land in Vilnius. I find a taxi for the ride into town and my hotel Domus Maria. I arrive at about midnight, and go to bed. Sunday, July 13’Th Domus [View Full Entry]

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Now, following the new trends in AIESEC in Lithuania, MC officially opened the team-building season with an unforgettable session in Andzelika's place (2 KM away from Bulgaria (and all other countries starting with "B" like Budapest, Berlin and Beer) according to Deny/ 2 KM away from Belarus according to the map). Location: EXCELLENTEeee...Andzelika's cabin in the country side, enough space to sleep, play, eat, drink, run, drink, make Koldunai. Thank you Andzelika. Participants: Kaja, Elin, Andzelika, Ieva, Deny, Rytis, Vytenis and of course me...ups...but let's not forget ANDRIUS [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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UNDER CONSTRUCTION;for some reason all pics got deleted. gonna upload soon After a really foggy night in Augustów we went on to Lithuania. Very good sunny weather, autumnal colours everywhere. First stop Kaunas, a beautiful city especially in autumn. Everything is red and yellow, an old city with charm. In Kaunas we went to the museum of devils. A rather humorous place worth visiting. Afterwards we went to the cafe in the cellar of the museum, which was VERY cheap and quite nice..The waiter was pretty funny aswell. Afterwards we drove towards Trakai when the fog came back! And even stro [View Full Entry]

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Our ride took us to the center of Vilnius, just next to an Internet cafe that we could use to contact our host. (Thanks for the ride!). We checked our host phone number and and went for a night walk trying to find a public phone. The city center at night was beautiful, the weather was great (wasn't raining and wasn't very cold), but the public phones were calling card only and we couldn't buy any cards. Technology can be a blessing and can be a curse at the same time. We saw the cursing side before, but soon we found [View Full Entry]

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In Kaunas, hanging out this evening until our 23:30 bus to Warsaw. Here are some of our photos from St. Petersburg, Riga, Vilnius, and Kaunas. They appear in reverse chronological order. Photos from Halong Bay, Hong Kong, Mongolia, and the rest of Russia are coming soon! [View Full Entry]

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