June 22nd

I woke up at an early hour to get ready to meet up with my father at his cousin Algirdas’s place. I admit, I was expecting us to go somewhere like a sodas (small farmstead only a couple of acres) but instead it was a day for us to hang out. We went to a [...]

Sunday June 21st

After the great deposit at the Vilnius Airport and my sleeping in I got a ring from my father requiring my presence for Monday, all day – i agreed, naturally, as a dutiful daughter.
At about 1pm I went to a church to listen to an organ music concert and met up with my cousin there. [...]

Travel Day to Lithuania

So Geeklawyer and I left for Gatwick at a fairly reasonable hour in the morning, to catch the train to Gatwick. We were suitably scrutinised by security to make sure we weren’t members of Al-Quaida. The flight from Gatwick to Riga was uneventful, but as the flight was with AirBaltic and not Rynair I was [...]

Crumpet Land

I am packed and ready to go, nearly. Just need to pour myself into some clothes and I’m good to go. I am taking with me a suitcase, a backpack and a purse. I have dedicated the backpack to items which I cannot live without if the airline loses my luggage — basically the backpack [...]

Holidays

I have started to think a little more deeply about my upcoming sojourn in the Land of Bangers & Mash.
Mr Deviant Chaperone requires two items from me – a Hello Kitty and 500ml of Maple Syrup
Lawminx – she wants a Nurse Kitty, Geeklawyer couldn’t get one while visiting Japan a few weeks ago. I can’t [...]

England it is

After much thought I have decided to forego the pleasures of the City of Lights and instead travel to the land of tea and crumpets — England. Not the United Kingdom, but England (I don’t plan on going to Scotland, N Ireland or Wales).
I shall avail myself of the opportunity to take advantage of Geeklawyer’s [...]

Paris or elsewhere?

I was browsing through hotels and hostels for Paris and a few of the more reasonably priced ones, for the week of September 15-21, seem to not have any availability.
So my question to myself is now – if I can’t go to Paris, due to lack of accommodations, where shall I go? London was lovely, [...]

Paris?

I have started a new position as Chief Accountant at a multi-national advertising conglomerate (I can’t say firm, as there are many permutations of the entity to service all sorts of client needs) and one of the “benefits” is I get 6 days holidays this year. I have to use them or lose them, they do [...]