Day 16 - Walking around

Not a lot happened today. We started the day by walking around the University Gatve, followed by some chases on the Cathedral square, followed by the Radvilaites gatve and the youth park. Georgia is quite good at walking for nearly two hours continuously.

We had lunch at the mysterious place we found on Syrvido 6. Now I had some time to make out the name of the place. Something like Tabakos and Boheme. And it looked like Boheme all right. It used to be a really beautiful sitting room or something like it but now the gold guilding is crumbling from the ceiling, the luxurious furniture is mix and match, the piano is blocking the tiled fireplace, and some (mildly said) ugly modern artworks adorn on the walls. They had a menu in chalk on the wall - about 7 items. Cold beet soup, cutlets, meat stew, blinnies, and hering. Waitress/bartender was a different one but very courteous as well translated everything and helped with the order. It was one of the tastiest, cheapest, fastest, and picturesque meals we had. Normally the place caters to the office people working in the building. Incidentally a couple of writers associations and similar organizations have offices in the building. But they have expanded to cover the outside people too, which I assume they don't get too many of. Need to find more places like this.

In the afternoon Alicia came and we spent some time playing with Georgia. Then we went to the Double Coffee for dinner. Not a lot to write home about. But the waitress was having a bad day and kept dropping and breaking dishes. Luckily none had our meal inside. But the poor girl must have gone through a good portion of their coffee cup stock.

Tomorrow we will check out a new gallery that we found in the courtyard of Radvilaites gatve, go inside the St. Anne's church, and see the exhibition of the historical photographs of Vilnius in the museum next door. And at night, Diana and Jonas are coming for dinner.

We are also trying to figure out the optimal plan for St. John's celebration. There will be multiple events going on at the same time. What is the best place to be at and when is the question.