A completely different world...

......We are finally in Lithuania after waking up at 4:30 a.m., getting on a bus at 5, and flying out at 7. Then, we took a bus (an extremely small bus at that) from the capital city, Vilnius, to the Baltic countries’ largest port city, Klaipeda Lithuania. We have left Estonia for good. Hopefully Lithuania will be half as fun as Estonia, but I know it will be hard to beat.


These two places (Klaipeda, Lithuania and Tallinn, Estonia) are worlds apart. First of all, we can't get the internet here at our hostel, so we are sitting in a small office room all trying to let everyone know we made it here in one piece. While Tallinn was a more "westernized" city with its ties to the English, Finninsh, and the other Scandinavian cultures, Klaipeda is a world in its own. It has a small influx of German tourists, but for the most part it is Lithuanian or bust. It is a cool "little big city" meaning it has a larger population than a small town, but you would think you were in a medium sized town at best. Hopefully we can find an internet cafe but until then, we are in Lithuania with no internet so there is nothing we can do but become one of the locals.

I sveikata!

(John Harris)