It has now been almost one year since I went away to Finland and it has been over half a year since I came back. I am looking back to an exciting year, a lot of (mostly ;-)) great experiences…
20th day: Magdeburg, Germany
I left Warsaw by train to Berlin. From Berlin I took a regional train to get to Magdeburg where I met two of my friends from Finland (greetings to Iva and Henning 😉 ). After the weekend in Magdeburg I…
18th-19th day: Warsaw, Poland
My last foreign destination on my way back was the Polish capital Warsaw. I stayed there for about 1 1/2 days to have a quick look around the city and to get some rest. On my first day I joined…
15th-17th day: Vilnius, Kaunas
Since coming to Vilnius I didn’t really have to opportunity to write another blog article. Partly because I lost my tablet (lost and found didn’t have it 🙁 ), partly because I met a lot of cool people and spent…
14th day: Hill of Crosses
Today I took the train from Klaipeda to Vilnius. I made a break in Siauliai to visit the Hill of Crosses. This hill is a few kilometers out of the city and is covered by several thousand crosses, the current…
13th day: Curonian Spit
My main reason to come to Klaipeda was to visit the Curonian Spit. This is a peninsular of about 100km length and only between 400m and 4km width. It is connected to the land close to Kaliningrad and separated by…
12th day: From Riga to Klaipeda
Today I took the bus from Riga to Klaipeda. It was a small bus with only 20 places and unfortunately it was quite crowded. The trip took about 4 1/2h and the roads were in a considerably better shape than…
11th day: Jurmala
Right now I’m already on the bus from Riga to Klaipeda so I have some time to write about yesterday’s trip to Jurmala. Jurmala is a suburb of Riga and used to be one of the most popular resort places…
10th day: Gauja national park
Today I visited Gauja national park together with my Latvian friend, her sister, her sister’s boyfriend and another of her friends. Her sister’s boyfriend grew up in that area so he knows quite a lot about it and he showed…
9th day: Riga
Today I spent another day in Riga. I started by doing the other free walking tour, this time the one around the old town. It’s funny that I met one group of people who had already been there yesterday. For…