"A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats." - Anonymous

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Baltics trip
Day 3 - 18th May - Trakai, Lithuania (Part 3)




Leda and the Swan


The Three Graces


YC having fun (in contrast to wt's reach for redemption)

The gift shop had this cute opportunity: wear a silly (and painful) helmet and take a photo for 4 LT:


wt in Helmet


Me in Helmet


"I love Lithuania. Hmm... but where is it?"
I got "Welcome to Lithuania, country of rich history, good beer and beautiful women" (not pictured)


Me in stocks


With the cracks in the side, it looks like it's about to collapse. Maybe they need a movement to rebuild the Castle again.


Postern


Le Cygne
Making up for the pictures of the ones in Bruges I lost thanks to the French idiot


Boats for rent


Boating

We had dinner at a Karaite restaurant. The Karaites are Turkish Jews who use the Arabic script. This likely gets them hated by everyone.


Menu

They had 'Tea' and 'Connoisseur's Tea'. I was wondering what the difference was. I asked the waitress and she said the latter let you choose between black, green and fruit. So in other words, it was probably the difference between Boh (Malaysian) and Lipton (British).


Their special brew of Kvass and a cumin drink (the latter was horrible), for 2 LT each. The Kvass was nice and smooth, and not as sour as the other day's. The cumin tasted like mild lemongrass.


Appetisers: peas with bacon and fried bread with cheese (great comfort food)


(Cold) Beetroot soup with potatoes, Chicken and mushroom kibinai, Pork and cheese kibinai and pork kibinai (pastries with meat inside). They were supposed to have a lot of juice like xiaolongbao but they didn't have much. The stuffing was the same as the dough thing I had in the supermarket at Uzupis.


Inside a kibinai


Dogs with horribly redshot eyes


Dogs ogling at lady


Dogs necking


Mains: Potato pancakes with meat, Cheese balls with sauce and Fried dumplings with cheese and meat

After dinner we walked back to the bus station. The train network in the Baltics is nearly non-existent, but buses regularly, punctually and efficiently transport people from place to place. I was impressed: they arrive and depart with military precision (ie unlike Eurolines).


Puss in Boots?


Statue


Road

About 3 cute Lithuanian girls (aged 11-13) said hi to us and then disappeared into this dark, rundown-looking house right out of a ghost movie or organ-harvesting syndicate:



We declined to enter, satellite dish notwithstanding.


I don't know why I took a picture of this.




McFlurry. I will fill in the flavour later. This was a sort of cereal. This was Nestle Lion - cornflakes covered with chocolate.


Front of All-Saints Church


Asia: India
If the aim is to promote the place, it's not working


"Erotic Cafe... VII: Closed"
What sort of Erotic Cafe closes on Sundays?! Maybe it's to let people go to church. And it closes pretty early too - it must be to let people go home to their wives.


"Pro Kapital Apartamentai"
What better way to reject Communism?


Yes, you must park on the road.


German Window demonstration (it opens on 2 axes)