So this Saturday was once again spent in Trakai as there was medieval festival there. It was really great and lucky me and fellow travellers day was sunny (after few hours in the sun, i already have some red skin, what happens when i don't use sunblock on my fair skin). One thing organizers should know - come on, if you organize 'medieval' festival, only beer you have should be "Švyturys" made from powder and drinkable only to foreigners and desperate locals. We have so many great local breweries! Sice i had only coffee in the morning i took oportunity to try caramel apple
i never tried it before and i really like it. Apple itself was delicious and big (probably polish) and caramel coating made it even better. I also got myself ring depicting selpent. I liked it so much, i gave him name - Juozukas and now i can stroke his head if i'm nervous or just for luck.
Medieval dances were also quite enjoyable, althouh one looked quite funny for me
- it looked like girl couldn't choose between two guys and guy can't choose betweek two girls so they made some exchange in their triangles. Knowing that all Lithuanian folk songs are either about drinking beer or guy going to war and expecting that girl would wait for him it looked quite modern.
What was really awesome was jocker.
He was straightforward, funny, making jokes and was really good with kids. Me and my acquitance from Scotland really enjoyed it. We even appeared in gallery in news and "news" blog 15min.lt . He was even able to make jokes about Kaunas, Poland and Estonia without insulting anybody. Everybody was laughing all the tim :) when i was in Kaunas last time after telling where i'm from i was asked 'So... you hate us" and literally didn't know how to react to that statement.
The perfomance by Doll theatre "Lėlė" "Trys paršiukai" based on fairytale about three little pigs was also really nice, although programme said it's for kids,
it was clear that grown ups enjoyed it as well. I especially liked perfomance of the wolf, who was funny, good with kids and enjoyable to watch. My fellow traveller enjoyed it was well, although didn't understand language. She also made some paper and later we took off. We went to Kybynlar for kibins and real local beer. I never got why for kibins main streem goes to "Senoji kibininė" which is always noisy and kibins are much much better in "Kybynlar", but it's nice that you can always find some place and space there. After trying kibins on way to bus station we found some local value "knaipė" which worked ridicuously slow, but everything was twice as much cheaper than in most of places in Vilnius. Later took of to Vilnius, went to herbs market and then parted as it was time for me to volunteer at Let there be the night event. My place was at event called "Varpų šešėlyje" and my job was to look that were wouln't be any underage youngsters and kids.Time went quite quickly but when i was free there were basically no intersting events going on apart from concerts so i basically didn't experience that "cultural night" what was more cultural evening. Concerts were rather good though, especially Victor Diawara.
Good thing was that there were night buses because our stupid "heads" meras Zuokas and Gintas Bliuvas who don't use public transport and has money for taxi believe that after 23:00 or even 22:45 there's no need for public transport. I can't understand if it because they are stupid,don't use logic and don't care about people's needs, they expect people to spend free time at home or they expect everybody to be party animals going all night long. I wrote email asking that and kinda expect stupid answer...
Today i'm having strawberries with sugar. Tastes really yummy :)
