leepback
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I was only there for a week in 2001.
This was our first exposure to (Eastern) Europe and it's obviously quite different from our home Australia. We spent some time in Vilnius, the old city is beautiful, the rest reflected it's grim Soviet past.
We then travelled on a bus to the Coronian spit staying at Nida for a few days, competing at the world master orienteering champs. Great area for orienteering, quite technically challenging in the forested sand dunes. (Many people don't know what orienteering actually is)
Food and especially beer were extremely cheap for us. It's the only time I've regretted that I don't drink beer, my mate said it wasn't too bad either. (I've heard that since our visit eastern Europe has become very popular with male tour groups coming over getting drunk and that prostitution has become a huge issue there. That's a real shame. I hate p*ssheads.)
During our visit we talked to young people mostly as they were the only ones that had any english so I'm guessing your reasonably young. Apart from that we just had to smile, point, do charades etc to get by. All the young people we talked to had such positive attitudes and were very friendly.
Would like to return in the future and also check out Latvia and Estonia but maybe not during the current economic downturn.
I would also like to visit the hill of crosses which we missed last time around.
This was our first exposure to (Eastern) Europe and it's obviously quite different from our home Australia. We spent some time in Vilnius, the old city is beautiful, the rest reflected it's grim Soviet past.
We then travelled on a bus to the Coronian spit staying at Nida for a few days, competing at the world master orienteering champs. Great area for orienteering, quite technically challenging in the forested sand dunes. (Many people don't know what orienteering actually is)
Food and especially beer were extremely cheap for us. It's the only time I've regretted that I don't drink beer, my mate said it wasn't too bad either. (I've heard that since our visit eastern Europe has become very popular with male tour groups coming over getting drunk and that prostitution has become a huge issue there. That's a real shame. I hate p*ssheads.)
During our visit we talked to young people mostly as they were the only ones that had any english so I'm guessing your reasonably young. Apart from that we just had to smile, point, do charades etc to get by. All the young people we talked to had such positive attitudes and were very friendly.
Would like to return in the future and also check out Latvia and Estonia but maybe not during the current economic downturn.
I would also like to visit the hill of crosses which we missed last time around.
There are also tons of other great places to visit if you like our culture. Yeah, that's true that not too many grown ups are talking english here, but almost everyone who is 30 years old or older speaks russian fluently. That is so, ofcourse, because of the past of soviets and ltihuania. Lots of people abroad think, that lithuania is a part of russia..... Anyway, allmost every younger person will be able to talk english