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 Post subject: Re: Lithuania!
PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:11 pm 
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Great pictures of a place I have only ever read about. The pyramid carry on sounds just too much.

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 Post subject: Re: Lithuania!
PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:56 pm 
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I forgot to say that we were supplied with bits of mistletoe, which grows on birch trees there (we saw it growing)! :) But their mistletoe doesn't have berries apparently! I just remembered because I found a shrivelled up piece in a pocket!


This is a place near a road, which was described to us first as a 'meeting point for witches' in olden days....then we were told the monument is to commemorate the deaths of Lithuanian resistence fighters who fought a running battle there with the Russians after they took over the country after the war!! :o

This may seem run-of-the-mill to you, but bear in mind there were quite a few Russians in the group, and memories are long & resentments bitter!!! :wink: I thought it was rather brave to say these things! But I suppose they have to be said now....

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It's carved in wood, of course.

I often mused during the time I spent there, how many of the participants tried to see things from a Lithuanian's point of view & not only their own.

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 Post subject: Re: Lithuania!
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At one point, we stopped off at a river whose name I can't remember :roll:

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and down on the bank, I spotted what I thought were butterflies skimming over the top of the water. On closer inspection, they turned out to be dragonflies! They were very big, and a deep blue all over, including the wings! That was why I'd thought they were butterflies! I tried my damnedest to get a good pic, but they wouldn't sit still for more than a few seconds...

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This was the best I could do, and it makes it look black. But it is blue, honest, and has two sets of enormous wings. (And I got my shoes covered in mud. :roll: ) I can't seem to find anything like it on the net - they all seem to have transparent wings, and these weren't.

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 Post subject: Re: Lithuania!
PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:13 pm 
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Blimey, LAL went bankrupt in January! No wonder I can't find any 60 quid return flights any more!! :o Cheapest flights to Vilnius now cost £319!!

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