This week I cycled several hundred kilometers from Vilnius to Warsaw in temperatures that had me wishing for the Scandinavian snowstorms of a month ago. Every day except one has surpassed 30 degrees celcius, the cool wind that blew in the Baltics has disappeared and the so-called fridges in the Polish supermarkets barely get the Coke cold. I want to…

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I’ve just spent 4 days in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, a small city with a population of around 500,000. It was a great time and working up the strength to leave was much harder than in most places. I’ve made more Facebook friends in Vilnius than in any other capital city so far – surely that says something! I’m…

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