| |  | | | Travel stories from Lithuania | Collection of 37 travel stories from Lithuania. Written by your friends on the road. | |
| | | | |  | New Year's In The Baltics
2006-12-31, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: mala | | On the way home from Lithuania, I was re-reading my guidebook to pass the time, when I came across a passage that I had previously missed: "It's not unsual in the Baltics for winter temperatures to dr... |
| | | |  | A Must For Frank Zappa Fans!
2006-03-17, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: leahjet | | Lithuania’s landscape is generally rural and extremely flat, although pine forests and tranquil lakes are a feature of its National Parks. Numerous storks can often be seen standing in fields or occu... |
| | | |  | Castle on an Island
2006-08-06, Trakai, Lithuania. By: smithy2006 | | Went on a mission out of the city today to chill out a bit, went to the only island in Europe to have a castle! started off visiting the worst toilets i have ever beeen in, yes worst than Glastonbury!... |
| | | |  | Up a TV Tower Tower on a cloudy Day!
2006-08-05, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: smithy2006 | | Tom and I decided that we would make mission to Lithuanian TV Tower today to see some proper sights as we had seen such a good view from the Castle tower the day before, the classic thing being that w... |
| | | |  | Do I not like Bus Journeys
2006-08-04, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: smithy2006 | | Up at 5 to get Bus to Lithuania, took 4 hours but felt like Ten as the driver decided to take every back road possible! settled into Hostel which was much nicer than Riga and went for a mission round ... |
| | | |  | | | | |  | Vilnius, The Most Beautiful City
2006-07-14, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: gertjonnys | | Taking an overnight bus from Poland, arriving at the Vilnius bus station at 5:00 AM, no guidebook in hand, no map in hand, sleeping for 3.5 hours in the train station on a wooden bench with your bags ... |
| | | |  | up to the Baltics
2006-06-18, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: downisup | | I have arrived in Vilnius on my night bus. The bus was cheap and decent. At the border, it took 15 minutes to get through. In Ukraine, it took 2 hours! I could go on and on about how, in many ways, Uk... |
| | | |  | So Long, Farewell
2005-10-13, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | I've moved my travel journal-ing to an official blog. My life is now stored happily on www.adetrich.blogspot.com.
All old entries from Lithuania are archived there, and there will soon be links ... |
| | | | | I Love Food.
2005-10-13, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | I love food. Seriously. I love to go grocery shopping, go to restaurants, cook for other people, and I love to eat. Food is a huge part of cultural experiences and living in another country. I get... |
| | | | | Learning & Unlearning
2005-09-26, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | My plant is dying. A couple of weeks ago I bought a flowering/leafing/cactusing type plant at a little flower shop and brought it to my office. It’s green and has pretty red flowers, but I have been n... |
| | | | | Missing
2005-10-06, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | There are some days when I feel like I'm living the perfect life here...a job which gives me purpose, a flat filled with Ikea furniture, wood floors and sunshine, friends to laugh and cry with, and an... |
| | | |  | Lithuania
2005-09-06, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: frankieboy | | Lithuania
Vilnius was quirky with an amazing old town. In my opinion, one of the nicest in all of Europe. Very safe with friendly and helpful locals. It also sports the world’s only stature of Fran... |
| | | |  | Kaunas Trip
2005-10-01, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | Lithuania’s second city, Kaunas is home to a great walking avenue, interesting architecture and about a kabillion churches. The Intercultural Program sponsored a trip for students, and Casey let Beka... |
| | | | | Links
2005-09-18, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | The one thing I don't like about the way this TravelJournal page is set up is that I can't link to anyone else's blog or journal pages. So I will just make a journal entry and keep them all here.
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| | | |  | The Good Life
2005-09-19, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | I can‘t think of very many places I‘d rather be right now than sitting here, Rita and Shane washing over me, soup boiling on stove, my hands stained red from grating beets, cup of tea and selga at han... |
| | | | | The Daily Grind
2005-09-09, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | I am aware that it has been over a week since I last posted. Sometimes it's difficult to know what to write about. Campus events and trips are easy - there's pictures, there's stories...But my daily... |
| | | |  | Muge, Hot Dogs, and Showing Love
2005-08-31, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | Last night we introduced the new North Americans to Kurpiai, the best little Jazz club in the East. Kurpiai has renovated the inside since I've been there, allowing for much more seating and a little... |
| | | |  | Pot Luck
2005-08-28, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | In the spirit of...community or something, the LCC HR department organized a potluck for faculty, staff & families. As many North American community members come from Mennonite & Reformed traditions,... |
| | | |  | Sunshine-y Day (s)
2005-08-21, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | This weekend brought a much needed break from first week meetings and orientating in the form of a game night and trip to Palanga. Saturday night we played cards (for about the kazillionth time) over... |
| | | |  | ...It's off to work I go
2005-08-16, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | I got my first taste of my job on Tuesday. I sat in on a department chair meeting. Present were the Academic VP who will be my actual boss, and 11 department chairs. It was an extremely informative... |
| | | |  | Beach Day!!
2005-08-15, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | Beach day today. We (Rebecca, Pisey & Casey are also new North American LCC staff members) left around 1pm and walked down to the port to go across to the spit. We missed the ferry by a few minutes,... |
| | | | | Excuse me, Ma'am? I'm Sorry, but...
2005-08-12, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!! That’s me getting out all of my frustrations after a LONG day of traveling and a long week of packing and sorting and repacking and maybe having a computer and then not havi... |
| | | |  | First month in Lithuania
2005-02-08, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: pugsly143 | | The last time I wrote, I had only been here a week…now I have been here for over a month! I have just started my 5th week of classes. The time has flown by, although some days it feels like I have b... |
| | | | | My first week in Lithuania
2005-01-10, Klaipeda, Lithuania. By: pugsly143 | | Labas Diena! (Good day in Lithuanian!)
I hope you all are doing well, and having a wonderful start to the new year. Mine has been quite eventful, as most (all) of you know I am in Lithuania for th... |
| | | | | saying goodbye
2004-04-22, Karklu 5, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | "good morning" said the fox.
"good morning" the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.
"I am right here" the voice said, "under the apple tree."
"who... |
| | | |  | Welcome To Kaunas
2004-04-19, Kaunas, Lithuania. By: tom57 | | I've been here now for 1,5 months and i really like it here, the people are very friendly and helpfull, the only thing that annoys me somethims is that english is not widely spoken here. I'm here for ... |
| | | | | I'm in Lithuania!!
2004-01-08, LCC, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | Hey everyone! I've been in Lithuania for 4 whole days now, and I absolutely love it!! it's seriously cold, no joke, but the culture is so amazing and the people beautiful and welcoming. we spent 3 d... |
| | | |  | Russian Reflections
2004-03-20, LCC, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | We left for Russia on Saturday, March 06, on one of the windiest mornings in Klaipeda. A bus picked us up at the dorm, and we, the 28 study abroads, plus 4 SA interns and 2 SA staff leaders, traveled ... |
| | | | | I'm so excited! :)
2004-02-10, Karklu, Lithuania. By: aspellings | | Ahhh¡K the struggles of an abroad college student. Do we go to Paris for Valentines Day or do we go to Germany? My family hosted an exchange student in high school, Kat, and she lives in Germany. S... |
| | | |  | A Castle in the Country
2004-01-08, Trakai, Lithuania. By: aschmid | | Here I am at Trakai Castle in Lithuania. This castle is amazing...it has everything you could possibly imagine in a medieval fortress. A draw-bridge, moat, eating hall, servant's quarters, stables, ... |
| | | |  | Snowball Fights
2004-01-06, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: aschmid | | Our first night in Vilnius and none of us knew anything about each other. There are twenty-nine Study Abroad students and all of us were a little jet-lagged and cranky. So, we decided to go have a s... |
| | | | | Note to parents-- we are OKAY!!!
2004-01-30, Karklu, Lithuania. By: aspellings | | Okay here it goes! Another try at keeping a journal. I am not so good at this, as many of you have gathered. I’ve tried to keep a handwritten journal many times and every time I keep it for about a... |
| | | | | My Week in Vilnius and my roommates
2004-01-08, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: aspellings | | I have not been so faithful in recording my daily or even weekly experiences. The rest of orientation week was wonderful. We stayed in a very Lithuania hostel in Vilnius, posted shower hours and ver... |
| | | | | week 3
2004-01-26, Karklu, Lithuania. By: adetrich | | Well, we are into week 3 of classes already...hardly seems possible. Somedays I feel like I just got here, others, it feels like I've been here forever.
It's been very cold this weekend; it was -1... |
| | | | | The Journey Begins!
2004-01-04, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: aspellings | | Sam and I left Scranton with 128 kilos of luggage on January 4th for Matt’s house in Long Island. We spent the evening, 11pm – 3:30 am, chatting and playing with an online IQ test. Our flights ... |
| | | |  | Tasty cabbage?
2001-09-23, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: dan | | Wrooo. Oh the joys of foreign public transport. Get there 30 minutes early for the coach she says, so at 22:45 or thereabouts, I turn up for my coach to Vilnius and wait for it to arrive. Which it doe... |
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