Change of direction
2009-04-15, Vilnius, Lithuania. By: Sammich

Vilnius is all good; elegant buildings in the very centre, surrounded by lots of equally lovely buildings in various crumblesome stages of decay. There's also a nice little arty area that pretends it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...