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Last weekend three beutiful persons: me, Vejunas and Toma decided to take part in touring rally near Kaunas It is about 100 km from our home city Vilnius It was very early when we started our trip around Lithuania... But we took Jurga with her energetic doggy to Kaunas and that small cute doggy woke up us fully After some time we came to registration and started touring rally where we had to tent, make a fire, calculate azimuth, find check points in a forest and so on After the rally we decided not to come back to Vilnius, but go ahead to Šiauliai (about 140 km from Kaunas) There we took part in street challange Next day Vėjūnas said that he doesn't want to come back to Vilnius so early (it was about 15 pm ) So he suggested to go to Palanga (about 140 km from Šiauliai) And this suggestion was brilliant Between these two towns we also visited a private zoo of some animals At last, when we came to Palanga the sky became absolutely blue It was so relaxing... But everything what is good ends... About 9 pm we started our trip home We were very tired, but that 340 km didn't look so much when a good company is in one car We hope this wasn't the last time of such spontaneous trip around Lithuania Here we have some photos

"Krasta Auto" has just brought to Lithuania a brand new Mini Cooper designed and created for a real DJ To my honest oponion it is so cool for a party somewhere outside... All equipments look very serious and not cheap at all You can check photos of it just right here --> PHOTOS

Imagine lots of people take their music instruments and walk to play into streets Looks like a view from a paradise? Definitely not if you live in Vilnius which is European capital of culture 2009 "Street musician day"is an anual music festival which is changing every year. In 2009 it looked very different from 2008. One or two years ago there were really less people listening and playing street music, but almost all of it was natural (without amplifiers, speakers...) It is the biggest disadvantage of this year festival. Those who were playing music without speakers were too quiet to be heard... However, I saw some talents who managed to attract huge crowds of people only with their wooden music instruments One more thing about this year street muscian day I still can't understand why so many young DJs decided to play their music which is almost the same? Maybe in this way they think that they are famous, beautiful and rich (like pop stars )? But remember that simple people don't like "stars" I think this is why nobody were listening to them Try not to show your disrespectness to the audience I could talk and talk about street musician day, because I like it so much! But probably you don't have so much time So this is a brief description of this year music festival's differences Now please check these glamorous pictures

Lithuanians are not ready for ice hockey championship in Switzerland Our country is small and ice hockey is popular only in a one little town, Elektrenai. That is why we can't defend against Kazakhstan, Slovania or even Japan. Just some years ago ice arenas were built in other cities too and young boys started playing this game. So it means that we will have ice hockey players not only from Elektrenai after 10-15 years Better later than never... Although, now we can beat Australians and Croatians These two victories showed that we are not so bad and made more than 9000 lithuanians to come to Siemens Arena in order to support our brave ice hockey team Lithuania took 4'th place in group A, but showed that next year we will get higher place, I promise Of course, I made some photos

The most complicated rally in the world - Dakar desert rally Lithuania is small and here live only 3 million people, but we have lithuanians who are participating annually and make us pride to be lithuanians In 2008 Dakar was canceled due to the fact that 4 French tourists were killed in Mauritania. Organizers weren't clear if they manage to ensure security. And then in 2009 Dakar rally moved from Africa to South America... I was thinking that everything will be worse and since then Dakar rally won't be interesting anymore, but I was absolutely wrong Happily South America's deserts, hills and wheather isn't similar to Africa's. Nature in Latin America much more dangerous!!! This rally started 183 cars, 251 motorbikes and 83 trucks. There was 1 car (A. Petraitis and A. Lekavicius) and 3 motorbikes (M. Slapšys, B. Bardauskas, Š. Paliokas) from Lithuania. But finished only 1 car and 1 motorbike. A. Petraitis and A. Lekavicius took 26'th place and M. Slapsys was 99'th. All in all, this year Dakar rally was so good that I started to wait for the next year just before it finished in 2009 Here are some PHOTOS from Dakar rally exhibition in Vilnius