Okay. So after Estonia, I traveled to Vilnius, Lithuania. And I LOVE that city. I really really want to return to Lithuania and see the whole country, actually. Dare I say, I might end up enjoying it more than Estonia? I don’t know, but based on the postcard pictures I saw, Lithuania might have it going on in terms of the architecture. But Estonia will always be a very very special place in my heart, and it wouldn’t be too far if I lived in Lithuania, right? Or vice versa… I’ll just have to get two apartments… at least. What a shame. But Vilnius is a very cool city – the “greenest” of eastern Europe, and it certainly does have a TON of trees and parks. So I was a big fan of it. Mmm, Vilnius. I really really enjoyed that city actually.
Then I went to London, hoping to participate in the World Naked Bike Ride there. But it didn’t happen, and it’s still a bitter point, so we will move on at this point. I stayed the night at a farmhouse in Essex county and had dinner in a pub that’d been in service since the 1600s. So not bad. Haha. It was actually really nice, and I enjoyed the time in the country much more than London. Are you sensing a theme with big cities and me? Haha.
But then I met up with my mother and my sister in Stockholm, where my mother was attending a conference. Stockholm is awesome and was the perfect place to start my summer training. I LOVE Stockholm. I got to see the Vasa shipwreck, a childhood dream. Yes, I was a nerd and wanted to see the Vasa. Whatever, I saw it, and it was AWESOME.
Then we went to Copenhagen, which might be my favorite city I’ve visited (although Tartu, honestly, might be where I want to live for the rest of my life). But Copenhagen was just wonderful, and we stayed in an apartment in the residential area, so it was really close to a huge park, and the running was even better there. But Copenhagen suits me very very well, if only it wasn’t so expensive… but honestly, if I could, I’d totally live there too.
Then we went to Italy to Lake Como. It’s been a dream of my mother’s and she finally got to fulfill it. And needless to say, we all enjoyed it. It was amazing. The running was awful however, and the mountains actually strained BOTH of my hamstrings. So I had to take off running for a few days to recover. But Lake Como and the area around is just GORGEOUS. We had planned to go to Milan, but we just never got the energy to leave the gorgeous simplicity of the mountains. And I don’t know how we could have done anything else. Hahaha.
But then it was time for me to get back to Estonia to take a bus into Russia. AirBaltic tried to prevent this… in Milan, our wheel broke as we were taxiing from the gate… interesting… 1 hour delay. Then I got into Riga, Lativa… They put the wrong plane’s luggage in our hold, so we had to wait as they checked every bag to ensure it was on the right plane… 1.5 hour delay. I arrived in Tallinn, get a taxi, sprint to the Radisson SAS that was holding my bags (best hotel I’ve ever worked with, period). I re-packed my bags to make them slightly lighter and more manageable, then I took a taxi to the bus station and waited. And then it arrived, but Russia is a whole different story altogether…
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