Vilnius, Lithuania
April 30, 2011 

This morning Cousin John picked me up and took me to the sparkling building where he lives with his wife Milana and new baby Vivienne.

Vilnius was exactly what I wanted it to be.  I’ve long wanted to visit the Baltics, and so far they haven’t let me down.  Vilnius is a city of 600, 000, and the old town simply sparkles in the clear Baltic sun.  It was chilly but not cold.

The city is absolutely crawling with beautiful old churches, mostly Catholic (Milana says that Lithuanians are even more religious than Poles).  But there are also the inevitable Russian Orthodox structures as well.

The main Cathedral has the coolest bell tower I think I have ever seen.  It looks like what would happen if a tradtional  bell tower and a lighthouse had a baby.  It’s just not like any campanile I’ve seen before.  Tragically, I didn’ tmanage to get a picture of it, so I’m going to cheat and grab one off the interwebs. 

We took a lovely walk around town on Saturday afternoon.  

Saturday evening we parked little Viv with John and Milana and I went off to the ballet.  It was a performance by the Baltic Ballet Group and the piece was called Depeche Mode: Another World.  We loved it.

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