Polish bread can be quite solid, unless you go for sliced bread, which I will now after slicing my finger this morning and ending up in a Polish hospital. The taxi driver took me to one place, which was a bit like a hospital, but not really. It was a back entrance. A guy with …
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On the train from Vilnius to Warsaw
I took the bus from Palanga to Vilnius. It cost 51Lt. Now I’m on the train to Warsaw. 67Lt. I have 10Lt in my pocket. The rest of my money I changed into Polish Zlotys. The woman in the bank seemed to find the way I said Polish amusing. It took a while buying the …
Swimming in the Baltic
It’s a warm sunny day. I’m sitting at a table outside a restaurant, on a terrace with a fountain. A man takes a photo of his son wearing a red baseball cap side on, like a ten-year-old rapper. There are roses in the fountain. Birds search for food beneath the tables. I’m in Nida, on …
Paluse, Lithuania
Sitting in the cafe in Paluse, eating what was described as roast chicken with stuffing but isn’t quite, a guy arrives and asks in Lithuanian if he can pull over a bench and sit down. I understand what he means and say yes in sign language. I’m sitting in front of my laptop, trying to …
Ignalina rain
Cafe de Paris, Vilnius
The new Turnpiece Web Design website is now working, though probably needs some images on the front page, just not sure what of. (People seem to like images though, even if they’re totally irrelevant.) It took ages to get it to display correctly in Internet Explorer because Microsoft don’t bother to follow web standards, but …
Uzupio Constitution, Vilnius, Uzupio
“Everyone has the right to be silent.”Clause 18 in the Uzupio Constitution.
In front of a television, Vilnius, Lithuania
Lithuanian TV
Now that I have a flat I have a TV, but can only pick up Lithuanian channels. There was quite a bit of singing and dancing, some American and Russian programmes
Uzupio Kavine, Uzupio
Sitting in the Cafe de Paris yesterday drinking a coffee and old Lithuanian guy sat next to me and started talking to me, in Lithuanian at first. He asked me if I was writing a book on my laptop, and then started talking about rock music. He said he got lots of emails telling him …