Aviation Tour - Maps on www.bankleft.com

The whole Vilnius area is wooded and hilly and we spent a week checking out the nice areas around the city as well as looking at the history of the place and its people in the museums. This photo below shows a carved bellows from a blacksmith's shop.


The airport at Kaunas where we met Justie is named after these two aviators, shown on the 10 Lat note. They made a vast pioneering flight only to perish in an accident shortly before making it back safely.


This amazing town wall gate contains a chapel, complete with organ and Catholics taking mass!


I bought a pair of running shoes and whipped myself to crank out a few laps of the local forest which was very soft, green and peaceful. The climate here is wonderful in mid summer. We bought wild mushrooms and tiny wild strawberries (packed with flavour) from the roadside and cooked them up at Justinas' house. Isn't this sculpture great?

 

 This is the largest timber building I have ever seen. It is some kind of strange restaurant now, fully furnished with oak and leather tables, chairs and couches. It felt like an old school barn/hotel establishment.

There are some very good beers brewed in the area and some great non alcoholic brewed malt drinks.