Vilniul Backpackers Hostel
Hello all! It's now 0959 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and i'm blogging from the hostel while Jo's in the toilet getting ready.
We arrived in Kaunas, Lithuania, yesterday, to a rather desolate airport. But it was expected la, since Ryanair seems to like to fly to all these run down airports in ultra ulu locations in Europe. Anyway, we wandered around Kaunas abit, realised the airport wasn't a misrepresentation of what the rest of the town was like (it really was so desolate and ulu), and so scrapped our original plan- which was to take the 1900pm train to Vilnius. Instead, we caught the 1630 train, arrived in Vilnius at 1800, looked for our hostel, bought dinner, and explored Vilnius's Old Town a little.
Vilnius is much more touristy than Kaunas (though signs in English are still scarce)! We're going to finish up our exploration of the Old Town later, check out this country within a country (Uzupis- abit like your Christiania, Sam!) and maybe head to the KGB Museum if we have the time. The weather here is great too- sunny and not too windy, about 18 deg celcius in the afternoons and 6 deg celcius at night. The best thing is- no rain! Haha i really hate it when it rains while i'm out, cuz it means the temperature dips and the wind gets super strong.
Anyway, Jo's done already, so i gotta run. We'll be in Vilnius for 2 more nights, then it's off to Riga, Latvia, till the 18th. Lastly, I just wanna reassure all those who have expressed their concern, that these countries aren't as backward or dangerous as you guys think! We will look out for each other so don't worry for us.
Ok, more updates and photos whenever we can!
:)
We arrived in Kaunas, Lithuania, yesterday, to a rather desolate airport. But it was expected la, since Ryanair seems to like to fly to all these run down airports in ultra ulu locations in Europe. Anyway, we wandered around Kaunas abit, realised the airport wasn't a misrepresentation of what the rest of the town was like (it really was so desolate and ulu), and so scrapped our original plan- which was to take the 1900pm train to Vilnius. Instead, we caught the 1630 train, arrived in Vilnius at 1800, looked for our hostel, bought dinner, and explored Vilnius's Old Town a little.
Vilnius is much more touristy than Kaunas (though signs in English are still scarce)! We're going to finish up our exploration of the Old Town later, check out this country within a country (Uzupis- abit like your Christiania, Sam!) and maybe head to the KGB Museum if we have the time. The weather here is great too- sunny and not too windy, about 18 deg celcius in the afternoons and 6 deg celcius at night. The best thing is- no rain! Haha i really hate it when it rains while i'm out, cuz it means the temperature dips and the wind gets super strong.
Anyway, Jo's done already, so i gotta run. We'll be in Vilnius for 2 more nights, then it's off to Riga, Latvia, till the 18th. Lastly, I just wanna reassure all those who have expressed their concern, that these countries aren't as backward or dangerous as you guys think! We will look out for each other so don't worry for us.
Ok, more updates and photos whenever we can!
:)
posted by toffees, anyone? at 9:04 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home