Today we got really lucky, we didn’t end up in any of many thunderstorms. We met some other Swedish bikers and they were soaked. They had to drive through 10 cm of water! As the doves above we ducked the rain perfectly.

Instead Kim found a nice new route through the woods! He saw a sign showing a Holocaust place which we both found worth looking up. At first it was nice gravel,  my favourite! But then it became a mud road – very slippery due to all the rain. But we both said – lets go!

Kim hasn’t got the perfect bike for this kind of road so had had to struggle a lot and eventually the bike didn’t want to go the same way as Kim – so they separated. At almost no speed at all he layd down the bike.

Everything went well, Kim’s bike got some mud stacked on it but it was easily removed. So we didn’t have to go to the hospital shown above. The saddest thing of all was that we never found the Holocaust memorial at all 😦

Now we are in Kaunas, the old capital of Lithuania. But both Kim and I are disappointed, it is not as nice as we were told. Sure, there are some nice places, but in generally it is not that much to see. Lots of half demolished buildings, both Soviet style and older and plenty of ugly graffiti. I will now show you some examples.

Michael Jackson memorial in the main street!

As the Swedish banks all wanted their money back, all construction was stopped and turned into nice playgrounds for kids and plenty of free square meters for graffiti.

Why bother putting up fences – now it is easier for the kids when they want to go biking…

The Lithuanian people seems to care about having nice cars, lots of BMW:s and Mercedes. This picture will symbolize this, all house to the left, almost falling a part, a very nice Mercedes on the right.

During WWII, the jews where haunted down in Kaunas, strangely the Synagogue was still standing. Though in very poor condition.

Here is a nice example though, this house is being renovated and they nicely show before and after. The part to the left is the new part. The right part is also renovated but they left out the finishing.

Here is an other nice example of what to do with all the nice old buildings.

btw, did I tell you we still have the nicest of weather 😀