Day 100 – New blog brought to you from centre of Europe!

Waking up to a very soggy day, our plans to walk the mounds of Kernave were postponed then scrapped. We can’t complain though, we have been so lucky with the weather and had hardly any bad rain.

The pups did brave a couple of quick walks but Ernest does’nt like it and so darts back in as soon as he has done his business, Mabel has a bladder of steel so refused two walks and later did the worlds longest wee at the centre of Europe, and Jasper didn’t notice it was pouring down; it makes no difference to him. Mark briefly lured me out with the promise of hot soup at a cafe 50 yards from the van.

So instead of mound walking I finally tackled my nightmare job and set up a proper blog, and boy was it so much bigger a task for delaying it! I’m pretty certain it has taken me longer than any normal person, on account of my being a luddite with technology, but the bare bones are here.

While I could lament the fact it has taken me all day to copy the text across from the previous 99 days travel (and I’ve yet to add photos)(100 days! Already? How has it flown so fast?!). It was lovely looking back, and my new meditation course contains the mantra ‘let me be patient’ – which comes in handy for puppy training, lithuanian drivers, and excruciatingly slow internet connection/freezes…where I would otherwise feel like throwing the laptop out of the window. Poor Mark has had hours of commentary, of me talking to the computer asking why it’s made my photos brown, why some words are brown and others purple, why it says there are 76 themes but I can only see 3 because the scroll down functions doesn’t work, how do I add a search function or interactive map, why FB thinks I asked for August despite clicking May three times….and breath…may I be patient…stupid technology.

Honestly if you have any improvements I could make, please suggest and I will try my best – I definitely want an interactive map and search function.

I lie, we did escape the van for an hour to visit the observatory museum, where we had a group guided tour in lithuanian. Of course we smiled and nodded, not having a clue what he was saying, but read any english descriptions and tried to guess. If anyone happens to know what the lithuanian pagan fathers of our motherland calendar means, I found it fascinating to look at, but bar it possibly being seasonal I am clueless. Very excitingly we got to hold a big 44kg chunk of meteorite! I now now what moon rocks and meteorites look like, so will be forever looking for some.

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We also drove to the centre of Europe which happens to be in the middle of a golf course in Lithuania, and it is from here this shiny new blog is launched 😀