Snowed in!

I'm still alive.
That's because i didn't even manage to attempt hitch-hiking out of Vilnius because I'm snowed in!
The white stuff has been falling non-stop for about 16 hours and is showing no sign of letting up. It's just my luck, isn't it? I just took this picture out of the bedroom window;

Some good news; It looks as though I'm going to have a coat on me when I try to get out of here tomorrow. A guy called Dainius contacted me through Couchsurfing to offer me his coat. This guy did something similar (but not too similar) to what I'm doing. He embarked on a challenge he named 'Africa4corners' which came about after he made a bet with a friend that he could hitch-hike from Morocco to South Africa without paying for a single ride. Technically, he lost the bet, as he had to spend 70 dollars at somewhere along the line, but still he didn't really lose because what he managed to complete was amazing. I'm not 100% clear about whether or not he was allowed to spend money on other things, such as food, drinks, or accomodation, but if he didn't then his challenge was obviously much more difficult than my little jaunt around Europe! Find out all about him for yourself by clicking here to check out his website.
So, hopefully I'll manage to meet up with him some time later today or possibly in the morning and get hold of a coat, as well as having a chance to talk to him and find out more about his really interesting experiences.

Last night I was introduced to some of the night-life that Vilnius has to offer. Cori, my host, posted on the Vilnius forum on Couchsurfing to see if anyone would be interested in coming out for a drink and meeting me. We met in a pub at 8, and there were 4 girls, plus 2 of Cori's friends also turned up.
Apart from having to listen to some of their conversations about such fascinating things as why there's always so much toilet paper in the ladies' toilets in pubs and clubs, how African men are really sexy, and other equally important topics, I had a really fun night.
We left the pub after about an hour or so, and headed on to a place called Woo. Not quite a bar, not quite a club, something in between.
A few of the crowd left pretty early, leaving me with 2 Lithuanians, Ruta and Ieva, and a Turkish Erasmus student, Ozge.
The music being banged out was mostly house, and the later the night got the more the place started to resemble a club.
Ieva left at some point in the evening, and so it was just me, Ruta (left), and Ozge (right).
Ozge couldn't get a bus home until 6 in the morning, and so we tried to pass the time so that we could keep her company and not just leave her to wait while we went off to sleep, but at around 4.00 the club emptied out and the snow was making the idea of hanging around for another 2 hours seems more and more uncomfortable, so in the end she did what she really didn't want to do and called a taxi.
The walk back to the flat took me about 45 minutes just because of the snow, and when I came in the hair on my head was actually frozen solid. No exaggeration!

Remember I told you that my host, Cori, has an English boyfriend and so understands what it takes to make a proper cup of tea? Well, I found out yesterday morning that that's not the only English thing she's learned to do. Check this picture out... That was breakfast yesterday! There's even Heinz baked beans in there!!!


Today I think I'm gonna head out and see how beautiful the city is covered in white, and tomorrow I'm really gonna try and get out of here.

I walked around the city quite a bit yesterday. Here are a few snaps;
St. Michael's church. Apparently Napoleon thought it so beautiful that he said he wanted to take it back to France in the palm of his hand.

Artists trying to flog their work.

The presidential palace.

Right in the centre of the old town.

The gates of dawn.

An old woman asleep inside the church of the gates of dawn.