Blogs from Lithuania, Europe - page 38

I went to Akropolis, the mega-mall here in Kaunas, to see the film ‘La Vie En Rose’, a film about Edith Piaf, the famous French singer from the early 20th century. I went to the film with Jolanta, my girlfriend’s sister. And it was on our ride home that Jolanta told me the story of the last moose in Kaunas…… Not so long ago there were many deer and moose that lived in the forest across the highway on the outskirts of Kaunas. Viktorija and Jolanta grew up on Asygilys Street, a street that parallels highway A1, the main highway in Lithuania going from Vilnius (the capital) through Kaunas, to Klaipeda on the Baltic Coast. On one side of this highway is Kaunas—high-rise apartments, trolleybuses, taxis, concrete sidewalks and parking lots—and on the other side of ... read more

Arrived early morning in Vilnius, the captial city of Lithuania and booked into the Old Town Hostel, just outside the city walls. To enter the town you must walk through the gate of dawn and past the St Theresas church where there was often mass crowds out in the street preying below it. Again the city had beautiful old buildings with plenty of character around. Spent the first couple of days exploring the city which included multiple churches from the Dominican church to St Paul and Peter Cathedral. Walked around the old Jewish ghettos and around the town hall, to the cathedrial square and up to the castle and museums. On the third day in lithuania I took train out to Trakai and after a beautiful but hot walk past numerious lakes I came across the ... read more

Today we played a doubleheader against a University team from Vilnius. We were small in number—only Shaq, Kisa, Marijus, Draugas, Yagi, Gedas, and myself were playing from the first team. The team was filled out by Simas, a player for the second team, and Edgaris, who plays for the Senior League team. Nevertheless, we won 19-0 and 23-0. Both games were stopped after five innings because of the 10-run slaughter rule. In the second inning, Marijus Dargus, who is arguably our best pitcher and, before his knee injury and surgery, one of our best hitters, hit a shot to right field……one of the furthest balls I have seen hit in Lithuania. It was absolutely crushed. Marijus is just back from his injury and this is only the second weekend of games he has been hitting, and ... read more

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