Hot Hot Hot

Well, we said goodbye to Latvia, and we are now in Lithuania. It started off with a stop in Siauliau (not sure on the spelling). A pretty dull city, but there was a cool place a little bit out of town. We rented some bikes, and headed to the Hill of Crosses. This is two small, normal, hills, however, some crazy locals have decided to place crosses on them. But not just a few crosses, but literally thousands upon thousands of them. Crosses in every bit of space that was there, and then crosses hung from those crosses. It was pretty strange, but cool.

Now we're on the West Coast, in Klaipeda. We've been here a few days, and it's hot. You would never guess that it would get this hot in the Baltics. And the thing is that because it doesn't get dark until super late, it doesn't really cool down at night. That being said, it is nice that as we've moved further south, we've had more and more darkness each night. It was great at first when the sun doesn't set, but when you're sleeping in a tent, it's tough to sleep. Plus, since the sun starts to hit the tent in the wee hours of the morning, it turns into a sauna in there very quickly.

We've had a nice time here, chilling at the beach, and walking around some nice towns, but we seem to have chosen the wrong time to come. It's a Lithuanian holiday this weekend, and it seems like at least half the country has decided to come here. The beach is so packed, I've never seen that many people a beach. There's so many people, and no empty space anywhere, that the nude area of the beach sort of just blends in with the other. Instead of a definite line of clothes and no clothes, it just faded into it. Another thing is that we tried to go camping in a town called Nida (a ferry ride from here on the Curonian Spit), yet there was no room anywhere for our tiny tent. Tents were set up anywhere there was even remotely enough room between the trees. Luckily, we were able to come back to the hostel, where it was full packed.

Anyways, I'm sure this is getting boring.... especially without pictures. I'm heading to Vilnius tomorrow, and I'll try to go to a proper internet cafe (with a fast connection) so that I can upload some pictures.