Vilnius
Apart from a raucous first night involving backpackers, beer and Russian karaoke, Vilnius has been fairly quiet compared to Riga. Everyone has headed North, East or South for the weekend leaving just me and a Canadian round-the-world cyclist in the hostel, and my secret plot to pipe illicit booze from nearby Belarus was foiled.
However I have seen the infamous Frank Zappa statue and the mind-blowing KGB museum, housed in the former KGB headquarters; political, religous and other ‘anti-soviet’ prisoners were incarcerated, tortured and executed here right up to 1987. Chilling stuff, and they show you where it all happened.
More sightseeing and photos tomorrow and I’ll probably be heading for Poland on Sunday.
