I had another early morning today, but for a change I was actually going sightseeing. Andy and I had decided to go and have a look at the castle at Trakai early this morning. We got up and had breakfast at 7am and then walked down to the bus station and hopped on a mini bus, which we I promptly fell asleep on. Forty minutes later we had reached our destination, the former Lithuanian capital of Trakai. We got off the bus and the driver pointed us in the dire...

This morning we left the hotel at 9am for our hour long walk down to the KGB museum. It was a lovely morning for a walk and there was a cool breeze blowing, some passengers complained that they were cold and they had jumpers on! I had a singlet top on and I was fine, I guess I must have acclimatized. I got to the museum on time and booked my next groups excursion and collected the guide and handed over the passengers. Right, time for some more recon. My n...

This morning was quite a sobering affair as our first stop was the former head quarters of the KGB, which is now the Museum of Genocide. We had an included guided tour, most of which consisted of a tour of the in tact prison below ground level and viewing the appalling conditioners in which prisoners of the KGB and then the Gestapo had lived in. I stood in one of the cells, which was no bigger than six by six meters, which had no beds and was used to house up...