Long Way Round Europe 2010: Κυνηγώντας όνειρα σε 13 χώρες...

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Food

In all places during our trip we tried to find some local specialities.
We were looking therefore for pierogi in Kraków...



we found cepelinas in Vilnius:



also in Riga we were eating in a place with local dishes, but I don’t know what was it..

Let’s eat, not talk!

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Stuffed with food we had new strenghts to see something more, so we decided to go to the cathedral.




Did you notice something strange?
While we were visiting church, pastor with some people came and took out the altar

In galleries in the churchyard...







were gathered different historic exhibits. Among cannons and balls I saw huge weathercock:



and mysterious head of ancient Latvian


(few thousand years old sculpture with unknown origin).

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One look back at the camping.
Again oldie! And again from Poland!

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Now straight to Estonia!




Tallin was for me number 1 among all cities in our journey!
We came to the city in the evening., but we stayed in a hostel just next to the center of the old town, so we went for a walk. Walk in beautiful scenery!

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Tallin was very hospitable with pretty weather. We could walk among medieval buildings.







All historic buildings were exactly labeled and described:

You could read name of the building, its number, description and history in Estonian and English. There was even sometimes phone number to information about it!


Whole promotion of the city was kept in medieval style:










Doesn’t it look like everyday life in Middle Ages?

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Up to the sky!








Typical round towers of Tallin:

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One more typical picture. Linen ladies!

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And finally incredible market square with wonderful town hall:











Are these buildings real?

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Time to leave Baltic countries. This night we spent on a ferry.


(our on the right)

The ferry was huge. With restaurants, bars, two-level night club, casino, disco and big self-service store! We spent some time listening to karaoke and watching show in the club and went to sleep.

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Time

We had problems with time. And I don’t mean now that we had only limited days for the trip
When we came to Vilnius, we looked suspiciously on clocks; something was wrong... It turned out that in Lithuania is different time, one hour later than in Poland, so – like in Greece. We lost one hour of holidays!
Later we were wondering if in Latvia and Estonia is the same..?
Going to Scandinavia we could expect change of time again. But is it for sure??
The ferry was coming to Sweden in the morning. I woke up anxious. Do I have to hurry up or still have a lot of time?? Fortunately they knew that people can be confused. I heard from a speaker: “Good morning! It’s 8 am in Sweden, we will be in Stockholm at ...” Good
To help passengers () they had special clocks on a ferry, with proper flags on theirs hands.