We awoke early and walked through a little fir forest to get to the lagoon. Then breakfast in the forest courtesy of Rita. We packed up and headed down to Nida. The southern most Lithuanian part of the Coronian Spit. Beyond that is Russian territory - a section of land that is geographically separate to the rest of Russia. Kalingrad is in that section. We walked up massive sand dunes that gave us a view if the lagoon on one side, the Baltic Sea on the other, and...

Saturday 15th September The drive from Kriukai to the Corronian Spit. So we get up early to discover Rita had arrived in the night. We also discover that Mindaugas is not coming on the trip but Kazimiras, his father will be driving Rita and Mum while we would travel behind. ( reassurance for dad following- he was on strict instructions to not drive over 100 as we were following - and he stuck to that). We drove to Siauliai - to the hill of crosses. An amazing ...