For the second night in a row Sarah and I went to the small garden at the rear of Downtown Forest Hostel and Camping for a beer in my case and a very dry, sour Lithuanian cider in Sarah’s. Being…

Last night I went round the back of the hostel and found the heart of the place. An outside bar and free use of barbecues. Sarah and I had a beer and a cider and drank in the ambience of…

The change in the hour to two hours ahead of British Summer Time gave us extra time in bed because neither of the dogs can read a watch yet. It meant a late start, but that didn’t matter because it…

Today we continued on our journey to Vilnius. As we moved towards the far east of Poland the landscape changed once again. Now it was nearly continuous forest. This part of Poland, together with Southern Lithuania and western Belorussia are…