Today I woke up at about 6 because people in other rooms were being noisy. I didn't get up but I couldn't go back to sleep either. I pulled back the curtains a little bit and played with my phone - the wifi had finally come back after being missing for about twelve hours. When I looked up, the wall was orange, as if the sun was shining right in through the window. I got up and looked outside. It was not sunny. It was snowing. It snowed on and off all morning....

Today I skipped breakfast and made a supermarket my first stop. I'd decided I wanted to go to Vingis Park, an open green area out to the west of the city. I planned my route, avoiding the long route via Gediminas and started off in the Old Town. This starts just around the corner at the Gates of Dawn and it seems to mark the point where the city starts to become pleasant. I went down to the square with the stalls next to the Russian church and this time turne...

I was woken this morning at 5.55am by the sound of beeping. I didn't think it was the fire alarm but I got up and stood bare-footed on the balcony (quite cold at that time of morning) to try and work out what it was before concluding it was coming from further down the road, finding my earplugs and going back to bed. When I went down to have breakfast I was given a plate with food already on it. There were three slices of salami, four diagonal slices of cucumbe...

After two flights (and two lots of security) with all my luggage in my hands (9.7kg and feeling heavier by the minute) I arrived in Vilnius at about 4.00 local time. I'd been watching the landscape from the plane, drawing coastlines and rivers for looking up later and had noticed snowy patches appearing. As we were making our descent to Vilnius I spotted a river that was almost completely white, as if it had been frozen in one instant. Fields and hills were snowy...