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[Krysia]

Hi!

Hubby is working ion lithuania this week and also a few other weeks in the year. if we pay for the flights the hotel will upgrade his room to a family suite at no extra cost!

 

So as he will be working mon -fri 9-5 can I occupy the kids (who when we are looking at going in Oct will be just 4 and just 2) in the day on my own?

 

has anyone been and can they recomend anything?

 

edidted to sat we will be in the capital vilnius

[craftyhunnypie]

I'd take playdough. I'm presuming a 2 year old would be old enough to know not to eat it? Also some of those coloured wotsits things that stick together when wet to make models out of. Paper plate puppet faces too.

stubby chunky crayons, so that a 2 year old can grip them, without them snapping. Most little ones love making a mess - crayoning, sticking etc. Sing them some little songs with hand actions, so that even though they don't understand the language, they can join in the actions.

 

Whoops s"Ooops, word censored!" that - I've just re - read the post & see that they are your own children.

 

Emma.x

[Krysia]

that made me laugh Emma!

 

I meant more like recommended days out, even with a few toys I cant stay in the hotel room all day. It would drive me bonkers!

[chickenanne]

I used to live in Vilnius! It was about 12 years ago now, and things have changed hugely since - also, was not with kids, so I don't know about child-friendly things to see and do (I was about 22 and not interested in such things at the time!)- however for what it's worth:

 

The old town is lovely, worth wondering about and exploring. There are odds of things to happen across like folk selling wooden toys etc, an lots of it is pretty much traffic-free, which has got to help if you're with a 4-year-old. It never used to be crowded.

St Annes chruch is beautiful: it was pretty much derelict when I was there with bits of work being done only, so you could go in and see lots of crumbling cobbwebby atmosphere: apparantly the work has now been finished. The cathedral isn't great, though, and the park above the cathedral (with the three big whiote crosses on the hill) always used to be a very dodgy, unsafe area so jsut be warned is worth checking what it's like.

The parlaiment used to still have the barricades outside, or part of them anyway, which if they still do, is well worth a seeing.

The TV tower is good for getting out to see "normal" Vilnius (i.e. endless Soviet apartment blocks where the vast maority of the population live: it looks like a really unsafe area but never was (when I was there)) and you get a good view from the top.

The Jewish museum is amazing, really affecting, but doubt it's exactly child freindly!

There's a nice day trip to Trakai, which is a castle on an island on a lake, which you can get to by train. It's very pretty for a stroll and great for a picnic. You might need to be lucky weather-wise though.

There are also some open air museums with folk houses which are great to see; I think there's one which is easy to get to in a day trip from Vilnius, which might be good for the 4 year old though would probably pass the 2 year old by.

Kaunas is easy to get to from Vilnius and has various museums and the like, some of which are quite quirky and fun: I'd be really surprised if there wasn't a kid-freindly one (or two!) there.

Also recommended, but further away, is Hill fo Crosses at Saulai (spelling?) for it's amazing atmosphere (again, not really kid-freindly). A lot of people really like Nida (on the coast) - big sandy spit etc - I can imagine that being good with (well wrapped up!) kids for a weekend.

 

Vilnius has an INCREDIBLE amount of "green space" and parkland (or did have!) so I would imagine it would be easy to find something near where you stay for messing about outside with kids and (eg) a frisbee.

Also, you can get great guide booklets called "Vilnius in Your Pocket"- published quarterly or similar - which will detail all sorts of interesting (and dull!) events. I think there's the same for Kaunas (Kaunus In Your Pocket) too. These are well worth trying to find when you get there - or ask OH to get a work colleague to pick one up for you!

[Krysia]

thanks Chickenanne! I have been looking on line and stuff the kids I am doing the Amber museum! it might be free to get in but I can assure you that by the time I finish buying it wont be free to get out!