Although I've tried to find some way around this, since Leah didn't come on this trip, I can't stick her with writing the blog for it. So, here goes the John (low quality) blog:
Gil and I went to Lithuania for about five days. Gil's parents lived in the capital, Vilnius until about 1970, and have not been back since. It was a great adventure for us to go there and get a glimpse of their former lives. We found the various apartments that his folks used to live in, and had dinner in the swank Hotel Neringa, where his dad used to lead the band. Very cool.
Actually Vilnius in general was pretty cool. The old town is great, we had tons of local food, beer was very cheap, and we had a great time. We stayed in the Centrum UniqueStay Hotel, and it was unique. We took a day trip to Trakai, a small town on a lake with an island castle. We took pictures. Some of them are on Flickr.
Mike somehow managed to simultaneously contract every disease known to man (in the interests of saving disk space I won't list them all), but he hung in quite well. He was healthy enough to complain incessantly about the low quality of Lonely Planet's writers, who say that only a handful of Lithuanians speak Russian. Gil is fluent in Russian, spoke it with practically everybody we met, and cursed the Lonely Planet after each conversation.
Gil - thanks for the great trip!
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