Saturday the 14th : let's go for a second week-end in Kaunas, to meet up with some fellow volunteers and plant trees together in the botanical gardens, in a project partly financed by Europe.
Our mission to get there : hitch-hiking all the way, with no lithuanian language skills whatsoever... A mission hard enough for us to fail in Jonava, only 30 km away from our goal. But usually, hitch-hiking is quite a common thing and is relatively easy here in Lithuania. With a monthly minimum wage of about 800 Litas (250 Euros), how can you possibly pay for petrol, when it is as expensive as in France?!
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...and planting trees
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| Four volunteers from Germany, Moldovia and Great Britain |
On sunday, we bought ourselves bicycles on a big open-air second-hand market in Kaunas, and proudly cycled all afternoon, stopping for a while in Kauno Marios Regional Park,
some 15 km away from the city. Founded in 1662, this monument went through lots of changes since then. It was successively turned into an orthodox church, an archive, a psychiatric hospital and an art gallery. Today, twenty nuns live there and each year, the monastery hosts an international classical music festival.
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Pazailis church and monastery, just outside of Kaunas |
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