http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Lithuania en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:09:59 +0000 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:09:59 +0000 To Trakai Polish Troki we travelled by bus from Vilnius. We paid two lits less than one Euro for ticket. The Trakai Island Castle is located at the lake island beyond a town. To get there you must to walk or drive along Gedimino gatv279 than Vytauto gatv279 and finally Karaimi371 gatv279 street. You have to walk or drive just straight up do not turn aside main road. Trakai has s http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Trakai/blog-472061.html To Vilnius we travelled by bus from Riga. Both countries have low density and bus drives quite fast. In Lithuania they built a new road they got money from UE and it caused some obstructions. Country is pretty similar to Estonia and Latvia plain and covered by forest. Nice country calm and silent I thinkVilnius was very important for us. Our grandparents came from over there to west Poland http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-471105.html When I first began writing this blog my main objective was to keep in touch with those whom I don't necessarily keep in touch with very often. Often when i would write I'd write with my grandparents in mind knowing that either they would be reading my blog or that my dad would be taking them hard copies to keep up with their grandson bouncing around the world. As I've settled into a more 'sede http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Kaunas/blog-468638.html Okay testing this on a hostel in Chios. Iv been out cycling for 6 mounths and now trying to publish my Palanga photo.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/blog-466449.html Cracovia Polonia a 23 de octubre del 2008.en TJ y LTO tarde del 22.Labas y Dziendobry se pronuncia yendbre a todo mundo hola en lituano y polacoLes escribo este corto correo para saludar a todo mundo all en tierras tijuanenses y loretanas... Ahorita ando por Cracovia ciudad que fue la sede cardenalicia de Juan Pablo II cuando ste era conocido como Mons. Karol Wojtyla... Por fin me toc http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-463554.html So it has been over two months now living here in Vilnius and time to write what we have been up to for this time.Firstly we are already into our second apartment the first place we were staying was with an Lithuanian guy who had a contract until May or something which was perfect but he had lost his job a few weeks back along with now 16 of the nation exactly one year ago it was at 4 unemploy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-460248.html Itrsquos been almost a week now since I left England so I thought Irsquod fill you all in on how the journey is going so far. For those of you who donrsquot know along with my wife Irsquove decided to go travelling again this time around the world without flying. The first leg of the journey will be from England to China by train where we will both be taking up teaching positions in a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-459400.html Back on the RoadThe Baltic States Estonia Latvia and Lithuania were to be our new mission. We bought a return flight to Estonia and so on a gloomy rainy summerrsquos day we flew out into the unknown. We arrived mid afternoon and made our way to the Bus Station and bought tickets for an overnight coach to Vilnius Lithuania We had two weeks to visit 3 countries so I came up with the pla http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/blog-448388.html Hi EverybodyI am going to get Walt to write a summary of his visit to Chernobyl later. This is a very old computer. I am having to hit most keys more than once. I apologize in advance for errors. I do not always have time to proofread my entries. I know the when to use there and their. I cannot tell you why I sometimes type the wrong letters. I have had to go back repeatedly on this blog a http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-445421.html We will have a baby soon... In the photos my pregnancy is 35 weeks... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Siauliai/blog-443786.html 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... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Siauliai/blog-443763.html So after we arrived in Vilnius on Tuesday we ended up spending most of the morning in the Hosteljust catching up on things. To be honest it was really niceto just chill out for the day as we had been so busy so far.The hostel were really great and let us hang around until there were beds free they had quite a big kitchen where a lot of other guests were hanging out everyone we met so far was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-437852.html In keeping with our desire to see a national park in each country wersquod mentally marked down this as the day to make a trek out to Aukstaitija National Park. However at the last minute we chickened out of the 2hour bus trip that would drop us several km away from the park and decided to visit Trakai National Historic Park instead a preserve on a peninsula that was a mere 40minute train http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/Trakai/blog-436018.html On our second morning in Vilnius we still had no hot water so we called our apartment manager to see what she could do. For some reason I donrsquot totally understand calling a plumber was not an option so she drove us to an unrented apartment so we could shower. Again it was a beautiful place with some weird flaws like a shallow recess behind the tub with no drain so after the shower http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-435756.html Due to being completely wiped from the previous day and since we had the relative luxury of being in one place for FOUR WHOLE NIGHTS we slept in the next morning. After rolling out of bed and shaking most of the cranky out of our collective noggins we descended onto the town of Vilnius. Like most Old Towns this one also has plenty of the twisty passages all alike that Americans seem to crav http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-435640.html To make up for only getting one night in Kaunas we decided to borrow a little bit from our first day in Vilnius wersquove got 4 on the agenda after all and wait til the evening to hop on the bus. We had a relatively relaxed morning and headed first to the bus station to leave our luggage in storage for the day. That was a bit of an adventure the trolleybus was so crowded Graham almost http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-435633.html Well that night was unlike all other nights. Rolledup towels do not it turns out make great pillows. We slept horribly and woke early and even with a breakfast stop and a coffee stop we still managed to get on a 10 AM bus to Kaunas.We rolled into town midday and called the manager of our apartment who came to pick us up at the bus station and take us to the place. Wow This place was http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Kaunas/blog-435628.html Ah Waking up after having fallen asleep in a new place always makes me feel both refreshed and a little offkilter. But this time it was in Klaip279da and the town was just so goshdarn cute we were feeling pretty good slightly firm mattress notwithstanding. We made our way downstairs for our earlyastheyservedit breakfast in the same room as the guesthousersquos hostess. Itrsquos st http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Siauliai/blog-435617.html Vilnius the slow finaleyes well it was a very slow start as well as being an Accidental Tourist I have also become a less than fired up get outta the door one. Have to set an alarm almost to get up for breakfast at 10 then take more than 3 hours to get out the door. Mind you he says as an excuse the weather here has been rather spotty. Its about midnight I work hard at this y'know and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-434402.html yes more photos this is for Bob see comments page. Here's one of my room key its on a quite cute fluffy thing that may or may not have been formerly attached to a small animal http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Vilnius/blog-434242.html