hey, vilnius rocks too!

i survived midsummer's festival in riga, it was actually a lot of fun! during the day i went to sigulda, called "the switzerland of latvia"...i don't really know why,...i mean it has some wooden houses, castles and lots of forests and some caves, but it really does not look like switzerland to me...oh well. the rainy day got a toll on me, but the midsummer's night (lingo) was fun at the lido with my host L...they had typical latvian food and music and i danced...yes, it was fun!
i then embarked on the bus to vilnius with zero sleep, and i arrived here in vilnius, lithuania. the southermost of the 3 baltic countries, the one with the least russians, the "more latin" one, if one can say so...
my host I is just super so everything is fun...i got to eat some typical (veggie) food, way too much food actually...and then we walked around vilnius, met up with a bunch of friends of hers, and had a fun night at broadway pub (well, broadway is spelled/written in lithuanian,...an indo-european language with 7 cases!). so it's fun here, i am loving it, enjoying my last week on the road, although there's a little too many italians here...going after the girls of course...what's new...the girls here don't seem to mind the foreigners because a) there's so many of them, and b) because the lithuanian boys are nowhere to be seen...my host says the good ones are already taken by now! haha
the town is somewhat deserted because of the long weekend, although there's still enough people to make it fun...riga was deserted too, looked like a city in the middle of a war (not that i've ever seen one, but that's what i picture it to look like...)
so today it's chilling and some football, tomorrow it's siauliai for the famous hill of crosses, and then tuesday i am going to see the trakai castle just outside vilnius...and then tuesday night i am on the bus to gdansk, in the north of poland...oh, and tomorrow it's also italy-australia...hopefully the socceroos and hiddink won't play tricks on us...