Travelog for: Bella de Koe

Brangi Mamyte/Dear Mummy,

  living in Lithuania means experiencing rain every day. They even have an expression: "Cia Lietuva, cia lietus lija" in English it is "Here is  Lithuania ( a rain land), here rains are raining". That means that everything can happen here. However, this phrase isn't used when good things happens. It looks more suitable for describing bad things.

  Neverthless, Lithuania is beautiful and rain gives to it a bit charm. Here is what we have because of rain.


A beautiful apple tree.

We met egn's favourited animal in Lithuania - a snail! This one looks so friendly.

Another apple tree. This one smells so lovely!


  And I even saw some chickens!

A beautiful olive bush, which is going to bloom in the end of this month.

Cherry tree. It looks very different from sakura.


I met an old snail. You can see that she is old on her shelf. I said "hello" to her.

Hugs, Bella de Koe

Brangi Mamyte/Dear Mummy,

  today we headed to egn's favourite shopping place.She needed a dress but she bought 4 pairs of shoes insteed! That's crazy... Now she has 15 pairs of shoes for summer.
  Here we are, all ready and axious to travel.

Egn just loves these paintings on walls. I find them beautiful too. However, it is an art after all and everyone understands it in different way.


  An interesting statue-clock in centre of shopping street.

  I and S trying to eat this huge cube piece of ice-cream and egn's dad is helping us XD

  We got to another shopping centre. Here what I have seen in streets from there.

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I saw a strange woman standing on the roof.


  Our last stop in  Suwalki was garden shop. Egn bought a beautiful bush for her garden there.



Hugs, Bella de Koe

Brangi Mamyte/Dear Mummy,

  I visited an interesting place today-a water source. This one isn't well known in Lithuania or Europ, but it is said to be the cleanest in the area.
  A strange sign, showing where the water source is.

  Going to it.


  Steps to it were very slippery so we didn't go any further.


Hugs, Bella de Koe

  Dear Mummy,

  I visited the second biggest town in Lithuania today. I think egn had already told you about our plans to delay my yourney to the next host for a day and head to explore Lithuania a bit more. So, all in all, tommorow I will leave this beautiful rainy country.
  Here I am, going to Kaunas and enjoying Lithuania's countryside.


  Despite the fact, that this trip is short, we made a stop to have a rest.




  I had a nice chat with MrCoolHH and S.


  Egn suggested having a short walking in Kaunas. Here is what we saw there. 

  I found some information about this building. However, it was only in Lithuanian, so i translated it with google translate. Sorry, if there will be any mistakes. This building is Military Club of Lithuania.

  A nice festival take place in Kaunas this weekend. It is Kaunas city birthday and this festival is called "Days of Kaunas". Here is poster, who shows that and wishes good day for everyone, who lives and are in Kaunas.

  Here is a very famous alley, called "The Alley of Liberty". We were walking along it.


  So, we were walking when suddenly it started to rain!

  Egn was furious as she wanted to do  for S and MrCoolHH perfect good-bye trip. So, the only thing we could do was to go to restaurant. We went to a nice Chinese restaurant "Mr. Chan". We got place in terace and I had my own clean place as well. From my place I was able to see women selling nice paintings.

  I was waiting for a waitress when suddenly strange croed of people walked by, singing something about "Harri Krishna".

  I got my own bowl of rice with eggs and vegetables as well.

  And egn ordered a big plate of crispy fish to all my friends and me.

  When it stopped to rain, we continued our trip around Kaunas. I saw an interesting statue.

  In the centre of "The Alley of Liberty" the statue of Lithuania hero-Vytautas is built.

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Vytautas (Lithuanian:  Vytautas Didysis; styled "the Great" from the 15th century onwards; c. 1350  – October 27, 1430) was one of the most famous rulers of medieval Lithuania. Vytautas was the ruler (1392–1430) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which chiefly encompassed the Lithuanians and Ruthenians. He was also the Prince of Hrodna (1370–1382) and the Prince of Lutsk (1387–1389), postulated king of Hussites.   In modern Lithuania, Vytautas is revered as a national hero and was an important figure in the national rebirth in the 19th century. Vytautas is a popular male given name in Lithuania. Vytautas Magnus University was named after him. Monuments in his honour were built in many towns in the independent Republic of Lithuania during the interwar period, 1918–1939.

  Here is the second biggest post office in Lithuania.

  One more bautiful statue.

    "The Liberty Boulevard"="The Alley of Liberty" is very long so we spent there whole day.

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Laisvės Alėja (literary Liberty Boulevard or Liberty Avenue) is a prominent pedestrian street in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania. It stretches between the St. Michael the Archangel's Byzantine style church to the Central Post Office and Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum around the Kaunas Old Town, the oldest section of Kaunas. For a long time it was main commercial district of Kaunas. Stretching for 1,6 km, Laisvės Alėja is still the longest pedestrian street in Eastern Europe [1]. Motor vehicles cannot travel lengthwise up or down Laisvės Alėja, but can cross this pedestrian street at intersections with other streets where vehicle traffic is allowed. This boulevard is separated into two walkways by a median strip lined with linden trees. Construction around Laisvės Alėja originally took place during the latter half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, however some construction continued even afterwards. Because of at the time built Kaunas Fortress all the buildings were limited to 2-3 floor size, with a few exceptions like St. Michael the Archangel's church built in 1895 in a place of a fountain. In 1982, Laisvės Alėja was reconstructed according to plans of architects V. Palauskas and V. Paleckienė, and completely transformed into pedestrian area (as it was planned as early as in 1953). Both Kaunas State Musical Theatre and Kaunas State Drama Theatre are located along the street, as well as the Kaunas Red Cross Hospital.

I think I have already seen these in UK.


  I liked this place the most.


  Egn bought for me a present-sweet candy in this fair.


Hugs, Bella de Koe.

  Dear Mummy/ Brangi Mamyte,

  more 3 TVs reached egn's house. I thought I'll be lonely when S and MrCoolHH left, but soon came Ezhik, Boo Boo and Pepita. They are the sweetest guys ever!

    Egn had such a strange week. She went out at 8 AM every morning and came back at 10 PM every evening because of school and her piano and driving exams.
  Altrough, we found some time to watch Eurovision2010!
  Here we are, waiting Eurovision to start.

  We all decided that our favourits are :Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Sweden and Belgium. At first semi-final we thought that Belgium should win. What is more, we thought that Russian's song would be better if they had sung Russian.



Hugs, Bella de Koe

  Dear Mummy/ Brangi Mamyte,

  today is exactly a month when I'm in Lithuania. I believe egn have already written you to say that I want to continue my travel.
  Today is the first day of summer, so congratulations, Mummy!
  We have a warm day.

  So, we decided to go out.


  There were so many beautiful flowers in egn's garden and we decided to make the most beautiful flower contest.
  I woted for these:


  This one smells so nice. I believe I have already seen it before.


  Hugs, Bella de Koe

  Dear Mummy/Brangi Mamyte,

  today is Father's Day in Lithuania. That is why we had a barbecue in egn's garden and her father had made it. It is said in Lithuania that it is a man's work to make a real barbecue and it is a very popular Sunday evening meal.
  Here I am, watching how egn's father is preparing barbecue.

  Here we are, waiting for our meal.

  Meat with rice and carrots and a bowl of eggs salat. Bon Apetitue!


  Hugs, Bella de Koe

  Dear Mummy,

  it is raining and raining all the time. I feel a bit depressed due to rain and there is so little to do during this weather. So, egn decided to make traditional Lithuanian dish-cepelinai. It is huge dumplings, usually with meat. It is eaten with sour cream and greaves.
  I think in this photo it looks like soup or something like that. However, ir isn't. And it tastes good.


  Hugs, Bella de Koe