http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Lithuania , Klaipeda en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:32:50 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:32:50 +0000 We woke early today in prep for our trip to Klaip279da especially me as my sore throat kept me from sleeping past 330. 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 so http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-433346.html Day 67 May 89The 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. K http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/Trakai/blog-406419.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-399457.html Today was a bit of a travel day. But the good news was that the travel day only started at 1145 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 no http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-399453.html Klaipda 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 apresmidi le soleil brille et les rues du centre ville sont presque dsertes. Il est vrai qu'il fait frisquet mais il y a plus d'ambiance au centre ville de Monthey un apresmidi de semaine qu'ici Au point qu'on dirait que tous les bistrots et r http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-393140.html Hola despus de 15 das tengo otra historia que contar bueno por aqu tambin se celebra el da del trabajo entonces desde el 1 hasta 4 tuvimos libre y quera aprovechar el tiempo para conocer algo nuevo estaba pensando ir a Estonia y Finlandia pero finalmente decid quedarme en lithuania y conocer mas de este pas porque ese es el principal objetivo de este viaje conocer lo que pocos me pueden c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-273534.html Bueno creo que es tiempo ya de contarles mas experiencias hace das 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 montaitas pequeas bosques y lagos este castillo fue un importante centro poltico y militar de los grandes duques y reyes de este pas el pueblo de Trakai es tambi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/Trakai/blog-268162.html 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 crewmembers appeared outside http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-267427.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-198372.html Time to leave...saturday 1730 dusk...do yu think we get a ride i wasnt optimistic...we walked for about one hour...out of town...thumbs up. nothing. i had wrote KaunasVilnius on a paper yesterday....it wasnt working. gas station. some youngsters were coming in a big renault espace...they took us out of town...to the next gas station on the road to vilnius. after half an hour a group of six ru http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-130372.html 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 kitchenat the hostel we met a great couple Josesyekaterina who acompanied us in the next day.A beautifull day. had a meal of milk cepelinaz a rugby shaped potato with meat... and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-130362.html Here are some pictures of Klaipeda Juodkrante and Nida. A really beautiful place I was surprised by how few people there were on the beaches in the towns and villages etc. but I guess the tourist season was coming to a close.I had written a longer more descriptive entry about these two places but it somehow got erased. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-91140.html 92106So I have been meaning to write for a while and finally the time has come. And though I have a million things that I was going to write about the following was not one of themToday I was reading Margot Schaalrsquos blog for those of you who donrsquot know who this is she is the mother of my friend Kaneza from Wesleyan and she is right now living in Rwanda. Among other things she http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-90886.html The following entries are fromduring my semester in Lithuania. I have copied some information from the program website so as to place the entries into somewhat of a timeline and to give some background info on the program. LCCLCC Lithuania Christian College is a nationally and internationally recognized liberal arts university. Established in 1991 LCC has distinguished itself in the region by http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-40897.html So far we have had two concerts in Lithuania. They were both sponsored by the same church. One was in thier city and the other was at a school in a neighboring town. At the first concert one of the dancers hurt her foot right before the concert. We all prayed for her and she was able to dance for half of the concert but the next day found out she tore a tendon in her foot and can't dance for 3 http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Lithuania/Klaipeda/blog-39335.html