Sunday 20 July

Our last sightseeing day of our Baltic tour. The temperatures in the Baltics seem to have been hotter than Russia so we have enjoyed our second summer for the year! The day started with a drive around the city of Vilnius followed by a couple of hours walking in the old city finishing the morning outside the President's residence where we saw the changing of the flags ceremony. There were some poor fellows looking like knights of old wearing quite heavy armour standing on guard - must have been hot! 

We then had a couple of hours free time so had a light lunch with some good coffee & checked out some shops. At 2pm we set off in the bus for a 20min drive to Trakai to visit the 15 century Trakai castle which is set on an island in a lake. There were hundreds of people at this lovely spot swimming, boating, sitting in cafés and also in the castle. However it was a very interesting look into medieval times. Finally, tonight we all went to a local Lithuanian Restaurant for dinner & enjoyed some fun entertainment which we had to join in with - called singing for your supper.!  Said farewell to our great Baltic guide Rasa (a lady) & our bus driver, Sergei & to some of the group who are leaving at 6am. 

Sometimes our photo labels don't seem to come out in the right order.