Rest of Krakow and then Vilinus

We finally went on a city tour of Krakow, which turned out to show us a lot more of the city. For one, we finally saw the castle which is a hodgepodge of different styles and ages, which each ruler having their own style.

The rest of the city is very beautiful, though again, it's the churches that do the brunt of the work.

We also went to a couple of jazz bars in the evenings... Awesome music, though Jane was outraged at having to pay £3 for a cocktail. It's going to hurt when we return back to London.

As a last minute tour, we also went around the Krakow city excavations museum which quickly flew into first place in our 'Worst Museum Ever' category...and not for the want of trying. Lots of money spent, unbelievably boring. A particular highlight... A piece of rock showing the layers of city path through the ages. Below you can see original walls *yawn*.

Vilinus, Lithuania

Full of many surprises, Vilinus was beautiful, clean, rich, and interesting. Inundated by linen and amber shops, it was a great place to mooch for 2 days. Again, more tourists than I would have thought, and the locals seem to be split into two sections: the well dressed, Gucci/Armani crowd, and the seedy underbelly of drunks, pimps, and potential villains we kept seeing around the bus and train stations.

Lots of interesting food and drink options here though.... We tried beaver stew, pigs ears (complete with crunchy cartilage), fried garlic bread, and bread and honey juice.... The last being ok, but I probably didn't need a whole pitcher.

Returning to the surprising, there's a republic island in the centre of town, so another country added to the list (Uzupio)...! 

Also, a pastel coloured church! 

Finally, headed to the former headquarters of the KGB in Lithuania.. Was weird..especially the cells, exercise yards, sentencing room, and then connected 'execution room'. The photo above is of the outside individual exercise yards....

Chris