Yes, I'm sorry but I honestly can't decide which of my
two favourite sketches of the day I wanted to include, so there are two on this
post.
Now,
I did think about taking the train into Vilnius on this, Friday 13th. However
the options were trains at 9:15 – too early – and 12:35. Bearing in mind that I
think it takes a good hour there and another one back, I didn’t think that
would leave me enough time to do anything very worthwhile or meaningful in
Vilnius, so I scratched the idea.
This
left me the question of what to do for another day in Kaunas. Google maps came
in very handy for this. I wish I’d had the sense to look at this on Wednesday
to be honest with you. I decided that I hadn’t yet visited any museums, and so
that had to be put onto the itinerary. We’ll get to that. Once in Kaunas town
centre I headed for a huge, white, art deco church on top of the hill
overlooking the town. This is the Church of Christ’s Resurrection.
Back
down the hill then, to do a wee bit more painting in Liesvas Aleja. Here I had
my first conversation with a passer-by. He sat down just as I was finishing,
and when I replied to what he said with my usual shoulder shrug and “Sorry –
I’m English”, he started a conversation . His English wasn’t, it must be said,
completely intelligible, whether through a lack of vocabulary, or from the
alcoholic fumes wafting from his breath, I couldn’t be sure. I think he said
that the UK are crazy, and it’s America for him. You’re welcome, I said. I made
my apologies and left.
I'm
just really pleased with this , since it’s the first time I’ve ended up with an
urban sketch that looks like the kind of sketches I admire when I see other
people do them. Even if I did leave a couple of windows unfinished in my haste
to get away from Chatty Von Boozebreath.
Museums,
then. Handily placed on the Liesvas Aleja is the Zoological Museum. Now, if you
like stuffed animals, this is the place for you. Look, I kind of expect that
from a Natural History Museum sort of thing, but I did think the room full of
mounted stags heads and antlers was taking the pee. I did make a sketch of a
coelacanth. Childhood memories of watching Sir David of Attenborough’s “Life on
Earth” demanded no less.
They call you a Living Fossil
From where I stood, you looked
More fossil
Than Living
* To see ALL of my Kaunas Sketches , use the link on the right to visit my sister blog, Sketching Around Europe
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