Day 28 - Rumsiskes and Riga

Day 28 Saturday September 10

We went a bit over the top yesterday as we had walked around Vilnius for more than 7 hours and were totally exhausted. We slept early and I woke up to a stiff neck and a dull pain in my shoulder partly due to sleeping teda-meda and the hotel's very soft pillow. Applied Volini spray and took a painkiller and now we are ready to roll.

Some people from Vilnius City Council came to meet us as we were leaving and did a quick Flag Off Ceremony for the convoy.

On our way to Riga, Latvia (country # 12) We drove through Rumšiškės town and visited a part of The Lithuanian People's Household Museum. It is an open-air museum founded in 1974. It shows the architecture, culture, household and horticulture of the cultural and historical regions of Lithuania. There are 140 buildings and 91,420 exhibits spread over 194 hectares, it is one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe.

The graceful girls

The dashing boys

Plucking apples

Reviving old memories

Chai break in the parking lot

We then did a quick photo stop at the confluence of the Neris and Nemunas rivers at Kaunas city.

Lunch was at a restaurant in Panevezio and after fueling the cars, we checked in Hotel Radisson Daugava at 6.30 pm

As usual on the driving days, we vegetarians were treated at an Indian meal at Indian Raja restaurant in Old town.

The statistics:

Hotel Radisson Blu, Vilnius 9.30 am

Rumšiškės 10.30 am - 12 noon - 85 kms

Lunch at Panevezio 2.30 - 3.30 pm - 145 kms

Diesel 5.00 pm (53.02 L EUR 98.30 INR 154 per litre) - 77 kms

Radisson Daugava, Riga 6.30 pm - 74 kms

Traveled today 381 kms

Total distance 8199 kms