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After a very relaxing afternoon and evening canoeing and enjoying some wine at the "ranch" in Latvia, we continue to skip through the countryside to a small lake TrakaiVilnius, Lithuania.. We will circle back to Latvia at the end of our Baltic exploration when we return the rental car to Riga, Latvia and our flight to Warsaw. Soon we will be crossing another border into Lithuania. We have found a radio station this morning that seems to have choral folk songs. Our road trip across Latvia is enhanced by the music, even though we have no idea what the words are or the language it is. I guess that is the beauty of music, melody, and harmony. It has it's own global language.
The border into Lithuania is so nondescript, we don't even realize that we have crossed over until we check our gps location on our offline map. Thank goodness for our geocache mapping program. The maps are not as specific as Internet maps, but good enough. We do not have internet while we travel and are dependent on Cafe or accommodation wifi.
The first little town, Varasai, is situated on a bluff above a pretty blue lake. A circular lakeview walk way spirals down to lake level. It's a good time to stretch our legs. Our trip today is slow and dusty because of summer roadwork.
We find our AirBnB on Lake Vievis north of Lake Trakai and meet our host Tomas at his lakefront home. We are his first-ever guests. It is warm today and he is making us a cold borscht soup for dinner before leaving for a hot air balloon excursion that he and his club are leading for tourists. We are loving meeting all of these interesting people.
The borscht is delicious (pickled beets, smalled diced cucumber, onion, hardboiled egg, dill, milk, and keifer). When Tomas leaves, we clean up and take an evening swim in the lake. It is cooler and clearer than last night's lake.
All is well with the Worrall Travel Rs on Lake Vievis in Lithuania
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