In the morning, the group went off for a visit to the Jugendstil quarter, for once I stepped out of it, did some work and, actually, enjoyed the tranquillity of some lone-time. Of course, I did not wanted to miss the organ concert in the oldest cathedral of the Baltic states, the St. Marien Dom. […]
Shortly after the border, we visited the amber information center, walked along the beach and tried to catch some amber ourselves. Quite funny, fine to be out of the bus for a while. Baltic Landlord: ‘Das Leben zu geniessen ist der Vernunft Gebot: man lebt ja nicht so lange und ist so lange tot.” Kuldiga […]
The Lithuanian saga says about amber: The stones are tears of a girl, who’s husband was killed by her brothers because they didn’t belief her sister could be happy in her marriage on the bodem of the sea. Another tale is: amber arrives from a demolished palace of the sea god by the god of […]
We started with a workshop in amber art. First learned about the source of amber and how to distinguish from artificial once. We even tasted amber liquor (not a recommendation, from my side). First level workshop is about to learn how to polish a piece of amber. We got a certificate for that! (Next step […]
We stopped at the old fortress, which is beautiful restored. Next to it two convents to be find. The buildings, like everywhere, had several purposes through the centuries, depending on who had sayings over all: convent, residence, school, and seminar… The city hall is an interesting building. Mostly baroque. The backside has some similarities with […]
Our morning started with a walk to the university, which was founded in 1579. Despite it was closed we were allowed to visit the historic library, founded by jesuits more than 500 years ago. We learned about the position of the Lithuanian language in the research of the roman language cluster: one of the most preserved languages! […]
At the flight towards Vilnius I sat next to a woman from Kaunas. She was keen to challenge her German skills, thus told me her view about her country: what is interesting, what to love, what not to miss. Loved her little stories, just to prepare me a bit more for the experiences the next […]
Sounds easy enough, isn’t it? Well, I knew, there was construction work at the railway towards Germany. Reason enough, to start early. Didn’t manage it quite well: stepped into the car 15 minutes late. To late to catch the first train. No worry, instead of driving to the nearest train station, I took all the […]
Wandern durchs Vogtland vom 13.10. bis 20.10. Some old news, you might say. An evenmore: in German! Nevertheless, I like to share. Probably, I will translate it at some point. For now, you have to deal with the German text. 🙂 Tag: Anreise Gleich nach der Prüfung bin ich los, immerhin erwarteten mich mindestens 7 […]
Actually, it all worked out just fine. Contacted once more our travel agency, India Someday from Evaneos. They, again, solved it all. Arranged a private car for us at a decent time. Streets, indeed, were fairly empty. We reached the airport without any trouble or blocks because of the strike. Had a quick bite and […]