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Traveller. Here and There. Following the lens. Technophobe. Sometimes straight often twisted.
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Under Baltic skies. Tripping from Tallinn to Vilnius. April 2025
A 2025 sixteen day trip an enjoyable trip through the Baltics, but it was fucking cold, wet and I was stuck with people who I am glad I shall never meet agin ever. Weather I can deal with wankers I can't.
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Savičiaus Špunka. Vilnius.
54.67929, 25.28933
So it was beer o'clock, which in all honesty can be anytime! I need refreshment, alas the bar didn't open until 5pm, so it was a case of hanging around on a street corner for awhile...(im)patiently! Promised
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Travelling, getting educated, Vilnius University
54.68256, 25.28774
Isn't that what a tasty traveller as opposed to a tacky tourist does? Learn stuff? One is never too old to immerse oneself in subjects of passion (yeah yeah that too, stop tittering and just behave at
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Vilnius.The church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Apostle and Evangelist. Hedging your bets on imaginary friends .
54.68241, 25.28804
The church was built in the 13th century, reconstructed in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the Soviet times the church was was confiscated from the Jesuit order and closed down and severely damaged, stripped
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StreetArt
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Paint on walls: The Republic of Užupis
54.68080, 25.29250
Some fantastic art on the streets of the Republic of Uzopio Lithuania. The Republic has its own written constitution, whilst you admire the wonderful paint on walls here are a few of the 38 articles of
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21. “Everyone has the right to appreciate their unimportance.”
54.68100, 25.29467
Welcome to the Republic of Užupis, a self-proclaimed, bohemian "republic" within Vilnius. What started on April Fool's day in 1997 by a group of artists as an elaborate joke, is still on going
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Black And White
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Kryžių Kalnas. Lithuania. Mono with an incey wincey tiny bit of bit of colour!
Soak up the atmosphere as you wind your way up the hill, through an avenue of huge and architecturally magnificent crosses as well as spying smaller more discreet bits and pieces of religious paraphernalia.
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Raganų Kalnas. Lithuania.
55.53555, 21.11723
Raganų Kalnas, the Hill of Witches, can be found in a scenic Fir Valley on the Curonian Spit, near the town of Juodkrantė. It has always been a place shrouded in folklore; in the 19th century, known as
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Photography Lovers
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In the asylum. MOMA Vilnius.
The creator, Jovita Aukštikalnytė-Varkulevičienė has since the turn of the century been volunteering in a psychiatric hospital, giving painting classes to patients and creating a series of sensitive portraits.
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Worldmappin
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Kryžių Kalnas. Lithuania
56.01534, 23.41636
This is a place I have wanted to visit for years; after seeing a programme about it on the telly. I could have stayed here for hours it just struck a nerve, it was so atmospheric. It was just a shame that
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Kauno mūsų Viešpaties Jėzaus Kristaus Prisikėlimo bazilika.Kaunas
54.90281, 23.91732
Christ's Resurrection Basilica features a tower 220 ft high, with an observatory deck with some cool panoramic views of the city. When in 1918, Lithuania regained its independence (Here we go.....), the
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Urban Exploration
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A church in a field. Wrexham
53.04039, -2.95028
As it was circa 1930 Source As it is now 2026, the trees have grown bigger which afforded some coverage from the farmyard where the dogs were giving the odd "woof". I had my monthly shower earlier
grindle
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Lost. MoMA Vilnius
A group of six photographs "Art & Feelings" by artist Dalius Baltranas. The display consists of six panels featuring a child in various poses dressed in a floral-patterned garment that blends
grindle
Photography Lovers
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Homer...You Rock! Hi-5!
Looking at some surreal paintings, mostly Lithuanian artists. and mostly very good too. "The Simpsons Visit Her at Night", crated in 2009 by a local artist Evaldas Jansas, burnt into my subconscious
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The Curonian Spit. Lithuania.
55.47332, 21.09729
The Curonian Spit stretches from Russia in the south to Klaipėda, Lithuania in the North a distance of 60 miles, at its narrowest it is only 1,300ft at its broadest 2.5 miles. A single road runs its length.
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Photography Lovers
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Let's look at some sculptures. MoMA Vilnius.
I personally enjoy these 3D bits of art often more so than a 2D painting. Are they more creative? more organic? Dunno, I am but a mere observer. So, come observe with me and form your own opinions.
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Cheesy
50.64663, -4.63383
Source Davidstow a village in Cornwall with a humungous cheese making facillity churning out tons of Cheddar cheese every week , and very very tasty scrumtiois cheese it is too, full flavoured and nutty,
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Photography Lovers
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Masks @MoMA, Vilnius
An artwork entitled "Sorrows" by Lithuanian artist Stasys Eidrigevičius. It was created between 1989 -90 made out of different bits of wood and tress and twigs and branches...yup you get the
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Plymouth. Ranting and snapping
50.36887, -4.14746
"So let's cross the border today" I suggested, "I have never been to Plymouth. I have heard that the city itself is a rough old place a haven for druggies and illegal, that should add to
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The Hunger Games.
The blurb told me that this three day foodie festival, (well a bunch of stalls selling you stuff is really not a festival but a marketing enterprise), is the largest in the South West of the UK, debatable
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