We had soon crossed the Estonian
border and were making our way through the Latvian countryside (on very poor
roads). Along the way I thought it would be good to find a cache in Latvia, as
I had not yet done so. This proved to be quite difficult because we did not
want to make any major deviations from our route. Eventually, I found a
possibility, not far from the road, in an ex-soviet airbase. We drove in,
initially on a little track before hitting the runway. The cache was just off
the runway, near some very cool underground bunkers. Unfortunately, we could
not find the cache, but it was still quite an interesting deviation. We drove
on, eventually crossing into Lithuania. The road condition improved markedly,
meaning it was not long before we reached our destination in Vilnius,
Lithuania’s capital. Once again it was a bit of a maze to penetrate the old
town. We got to the general area, but Patsy and Philip had to go in search of
further instruction from the hotel to find the carpark. Once all of this was
sorted out, we went for a walk around the old town. While it was very pretty,
the town seems to be more spread out, with fewer preserved buildings than the
other Baltic capitals we visited. We were quite keen to have a traditional
Lithuanian meal. The LPG suggested one restaurant, however it would seem that
it has since disappeared. We spent quite some time searching and eventually, in
desperation, settled on a place close to our restaurant. The food turned out to
be pretty good, although not particularly Lithuanian.
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