starting my visit to the Baltics, with 16 days in Lithuania
As the Belarus trip ended at the bus station in the Lithuanian capital, and I have never visited Lithuania (nor the other Baltic states), it seemed like a good idea to spend some time there. My next firm time commitment involves meeting a group in New Delhi at the very end of June, leaving me some seven weeks to cover the Baltic states - which seemed like enough as these countries are small, but I still felt the pressure to keep moving on from one place to another. Which meant that I only spent a week in the capital, Vilnius, even though it was a really nice city and a comfortable hostel with nice fellow guests, before I caught the train to Kaunas. Of course there's the usual point to remember that I don't just jump from one holiday (Belarus) to another (Lithuania), but need a few 'home' or 'down' days - to sleep, do laundry, edit, cull, label and back up my photos, catch up with emails, etc - so my week was by no means a full week. But I walked many miles to...