Trakai

On 15th and 16th June Daniele and I visited one of the most popular tourist destinations in Lithuania - Trakai Island Castle. It was built back in the 14th century and for a short time it had military importance. It also served as the royal summer residence and later as a prison. The castle was damaged a couple of times and finally reconstructed in the 20th century. Ever since then it is a major tourist attraction - nowadays it is turned into a museum where different expositions can be seen. Well, we definitely did not like the room with stuffed animals..

The purpose of our visit was not only to see the castle but to take part in a medieval festival which took place there. We felt like we were in a fairy-tale - there was very nice medieval music, people were dressed in medieval clothes. There also were different crafts, dances and a knight battle where people in traditional knight armours demonstrated combat positions.

So we enjoyed the weekend in the nice company of Giovanni, the volunteer in Dzūkija National Park, Dimcho, another Bulgarian in Lithuania who I met on the airport, and the very tasty beer with honey!