I just watched Lietuvos Rytas (Vilnius) play Olympiakos and it was quite a night. Lithuanians embrace basketball with a passion and the experience was special, the local team even managed to win a great game which made almost all the 11,000 people in the stadium very happy.
When you are small country and nobody knows where [...]
I was recently reading a website about an Aussie who has been travelling through the Baltics recently, on the website there was a comment from a 21yr old Russian student that I found interesting.
The quote from a comment left at the site: From this Aussie’s blog.
……….. Btw i’ve never heard a fact that people [...]
This is the photo from the balcony at Bitiniku Gatve.
The snow has started falling and it’s very cold when you go out at the moment. I have had the flu these last few days as the transition from the minus zero temperatures to indoors is not easy to manage.
In the morning if it has [...]
I notice that the Intelligent Design (ID) debate has been making a splash in the Aussie newspapers recently, apparently being pushed by the wonderfully naive Family First Party.
If you take a position that can never be disproved and pour oceans of logic over it you are still going to be in the same position [...]
Don’t take pseudo-ephadrine (flu mixture) and three cups of coffee after midnight if you want to get any sleep that night.
Some photos I took in Palanga Lithuania, October 2005. Lithuanian forests are very pristine and provide a refreshing place to walk and ponder lifes harder questions.
Very pretty, but far too cold to swim at this time of year. There will be snow on the beach soon.