Our harbor tour was glitch less, without a glitch, or glitch free. Really. We boarded at 10 am with most teachers sitting on the main deck while others climbed to the top deck. Our skipper sailed out of the inlet and into the harbor channel. The tour guide, whose voice echoed her Lithuanian and Klaipedian pride, told us stories of old Klaipeda-- there was Neringa, the goddess who watched over the harbor waters, the lumber merchants who felled the pines to sell to England, causing the sand dunes to swallow the treeless villages, the Soviet monies which built up the port only to be turned over to Lithuania when it took back its country, and the hundreds of business that line the harbor sides. Since I went topside, I did not hear the entire spiel. There was a speaker system below deck, but the speaker topside was either not working, turned off, or not included as part of the package. So, Rita, one of the teachers, sat near the stairs and interpreted the lecture for the rest of us. So, my harbor stories are all second hand. All in all, it was quite interesting.
After deboarding, we all wandered down to the Old Town for lunch. With our two Lithuanian-Kiwi friends, Jude and I meandered over to an outdoor cafe on the square, ate a delicious meal and visited. Later we parted. Jude and I walked past a couple of chess players who seemed in their zones even with the cameras and onlookers.
On Friday night, we held our annual BBQ-- peeled sausages, cucumbers and ketchup...before and after eating, the students played games...
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Location:Pakruojo gatvė,Klaipėda,Lithuania
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