{"id":5330,"date":"2017-06-29T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/?p=5330\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T23:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:57:06","slug":"vacations-in-lithuania-and-the-storm-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daivarepeckaite.com\/en\/2017\/06\/vacations-in-lithuania-and-the-storm-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacations in Lithuania and ‘the storm of the decade’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come to Lithuania in June, they said. Chill and swim in a lake, they said. So I expected to have very chill vacations, looking scruffy and eating garden-grown veggies. But then my friend and comrade Sandra put me in a designer dress for a photoshoot<\/a> for her magazine, Verslo piet\u016bs<\/em>. Focusing on success stories, her magazine has become home for my latest travel articles before I embarked on my new Mediterranean adventure.<\/p>\n

This team is fantastic, and I always learn a lot just by hanging out with them. At the same time it was a learning experience to see what areas of Vilnius are suitable for taking photos when the sky is cloudy. Our photographer chose the area near the White Bridge<\/a>, which offers green spaces as well as urban landscapes.<\/p>\n

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My other friend invited me to Dr. Waffle (Pylimo str. 11) – a new cafe of the up-and-coming central station area. This was where I learned that a waffle burger is a thing – and it costs only 4 eur! Friendly staff and interesting hot drinks make this place strongly recommendable.<\/p>\n

Chatting with friends in Kaunas, I learned that the municipality has offered several hundreds of fully funded summer school places for local children. Also, one of the buildings on a local university campus is being transformed to much-needed underground parking, which will hopefully encourage people to leave their cars and explore the city on foot, by bus or using now fully functional rental bike system. This time I didn\u2032t have an impression that Kaunas changed a lot – it\u2032s still coffee, donuts and bakeries all the way.<\/p>\n

Back in Vilnius, I made a few quick plans, but the weather spirits decided to extend my siblings quality time, as a thunderstorm and resulting flood made me ask my brother for a lift to my next destination, and we spent nearly an hour in a traffic jam among desperate drivers. No wonder, since the city looked like this:<\/p>\n\n

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