Day 4 - 19th May - Klaipeda, Lithuania (Part 3)
Addendum to previous post: almost all of the items in the menu at the restaurant had translations in English, German and Russia, except for one for which there was no word in all the tongues of men (except Lithuanian).
YC disappeared fro a long time. We thought he had found something very interesting. Turns out he went to the carpark.
Sundial shattered by a hurricane a few years back
Guide to the view from the Parnidis Dune
Sea and oil rig illuminated by a break in the cloud
The sun, sand, sea... and Spit
Bank
The only thing stopping us from plummeting to our doom
Me
[Addendum:
UD #6 on the second one:
"this is like a painting!
but a little sad though."]
YC descending staircase
Field
Flora and Fauna guide
Lamp post
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
They must be getting ready for winter (this was May)
Coast
Magic speedometer on the bus back to Smiltyne. Makes you wonder about Lithuanian drivers.
Map of Smiltyne beaches: "Common Beach, Disables Beach (sic), Female Beach, Male Beach, Nudist Beach"
"Fetish girls wheelchair stuck in dune"
One good thing about staying in hostels versus hotels - many hostels give you free Internet terminals.
The other 2 saw wild boar and deer on the treeline on the bus back, but I didn't. Damn.
Estrella Potato Chips, including a bacon-flavoured pack. I would've gotten one, but the aunties at the concessionaires beside the Smiltyne ferry terminal started screaming "no, no, no photo" at me (they probably feared I was from the price-fixing commission) so I refused (I refused on the next day as well). There were also 2L plastic beer bottles.
Port: why the lagoon is so polluted swimming in it is not recommended
Expert Euro 2L plastic beer bottles, on the other side
"hyper Maxima XXX"
There is a supermarket chain in the Baltics called Maxima. To indicate the size of each joint, they are labelled "X", "XX" or "XXX".
Contrary to what I'd been told, the shops in Klaipeda didn't open very late. Probably it was just Vilnius.
Quotes:
[On the receptionist screwing up our reservation for the next day to a very cool place (see a post in the near future)] Matter that should be used for the development of the brain develops elsewhere. Her brains went south. Small-breasted women are smarter than big-breasted women. Research shows that that's true. I'll refer you to the link. [Me: Did you read that from The Onion?] No lah, I'm not that stupid.
