Today morning I tríed to catch an early bus to Klaipeda and Curonian Spit. Unfortunetaly it was full, and I had to wait for a couple of hours for the next one. In Klaipeda I found the ferry to Smiltyne easily. In Smiltyne I had time to go to the beach for a while before catching a bus to Nida, my final destination today. Curonian Spit is listed as one of Unesco's World Heritage sites and is located in western part of Lithuania. It's famous mostly for it's vast sand dunes, surrounded by forests. It also has nice beaches and coastline, so all in all it's a very beautiful place. After getting here I rented a bike, and after few way too expensive offers found a reasonable place to stay. After eating some pasta, I was ready to do some speed tourism. I only had three hours before dark, so I tried to be effective. I climbed up to Parnidis Dune, which offered a very beatiful sight of the coastline, dunes and forest. Before going to bed I also spent the most relaxing moment on the beach, where I found more than ten swans chilling out and relaxing. So I joined them for a while, took some nice pictures and felt really peaceful and good. One of those moments when the time seems to stop... And then came an old guy out of the blue right next to me, stand there for a while, and made the loudest fart ever. So yes, it WAS a perfect moment. And they say it's the teenagers who behave badly? Actually now that I think of it, it was almost as I was travelling with Sampo once again... ;)
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| Curonian Spit in Nida. In the end is already Russian territory. |
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| Sunrise in Nida |
Tuesday 12th of June
Okay, this was an... interesting day. I woke up at 7 am, to have some time to take the bike and go looking around. And I'm glad I did, because it was pretty awesome watching the sun rising on the beach and biking in the forest all by myself. It was another one of those moments. This time without the old guy (or Sampo). So I had a very good morning, and at 10.30 I took the bus back to Smiltyne. After the short ferry ride I walked around the Klaipeda old town for awhile before heading to highway leading to Kaunas. The highway was a bit further away than what it seemed to according to my map, so I had to walk some 7km with the 15kg on my back. Finally I got to a place where I thought I could catch a ride to Kaunas. After hour and a half the first car stopped and took me 4 km closer. What a great help it was. Only, I was running out of water, and there were no shops to be found in the neighbourhood. So after half an hour more I decided to give up. Honestly, in two hours one car stopped and basically all other just drove past full speed. So I went to the other side, started walking and lifted my finger. This time it was the first car that stopped, it was a local teacher who drove me all the way back to the bus station. So I bought a ticket to the next bus and went to an ATM to get some money. Well, today even that wasn't so easy, so the damn machine decided to confiscate my credit card. No other option than to call to Nordea and to kill my card. Nice. Luckily I do have my Visa Electron still with me. Right before my trip I almost cancelled it because I haven't used it in many years... now I'm very glad that I didn't. When sitting on the bus I had a thought that probably something else will go wrong today, otherwise it wouldn't be a perfect day. Five minutes later I found out that my sun classes were broken. The ones that I had bought from Riga, because the previous one got broken. Now I called it a perfect day!
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| A small mouse in Klaipeda |
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| A big mouse in Klaipeda |
After finally reaching Kaunas, I found my couch surfing host Akvile quite easily, her flat is located right in the old town. She showed me around the old town, we had a few beers and now it starts to be time to get some sleep, it's been a long day. The plan tomorrow is to call to Nordea and ask them if they can send me a new card to Bucharest, and playing tourist in Kaunas. On Thursday morning I'll continue to Vilnius, where I also have a coach waiting for me.
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