We slept until nearly 9 and then went out for breakfast. The only thing we don't like about this hotel is there is no coffee available in the morning. Otherwise it is great. The concierge recommended a good place around the corner, and we headed out into the beautiful day. The first pictures you will see are of people buying greens to take to church for Palm Sunday. I suppose in place of palm fronds. You will also notice that getting into and out of church was not easy. I wonder if it looks like this every Sunday.
We walked a little and came back to the room where the rest my eyes for a few minutes turned into a major nap. When I woke up at 2:30, Del went out to see the town, and take most of these pictures, and I stayed home.to relax. I don't know why I felt so tired. He got back about 5:30 and we headed out for a walk and to dinner at a tapas bar and restaurant. We had not eaten lunch, so we were glad to eat early. We shared a cheese tapas and a bruchetta type tapas or is it a tapa? Then I had a bowl of seafood soup and Del had paella, followed by ice cream with toasted hazelnuts. It was even better than Tex-Mex. The waiter asked hoow we knew some Lithuanian. Clearly, it doesn't take much to impress him. Heasked where we were from and when we said the US, he said that explained why we were easy to understand. He has a hard time understanding the British. Don't we all?
After dinner we walked around the city for a good while. Del was covering territory he had seen this afternoon, but he didn't seem to mind. The churches are beautiful, and there is a huge synagogue. We walked past several embassies, as well.
We were taking a picture of people sitting at an outdoor cafe, wrapped in shawls provided by the establishment, when a group of young people in costume, jumped in front of the picture and began to pose. I asked if they were actors and, of course, they were. We laughed and waved and they walked on down the street. A second later, the guy in the motorcycle suit and mask got up from a table and came over and started to talk. He wanted his picture taken. One of the group he was with knows someone in Jersey City, and they knew Atlanta. I don't know what was going on, but they were having a great time. Someone said something about footballers and being in Japan, but I didn't understand. Who knows, maybe they were famous athletes. They looked like they could have been. We saw him go by on his bike as we were going into our hotel later on. He had on a helmet rather than the mask. Maybe they were poking fun at the Americans and their cameras, but it was still fun.
Tomorrow I am going to be up bright and early and ready to do the town!
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