Another uni term has ended, no more lectures until 2014 *Gasp. So, time to break free before exams and travel. First destination - Lithuania. But what fun is taking a direct flight when you can take the long way round :) Therefore another travel season has just been opened with a small trip to Leeds from which we were to catch a flight to LT through Germany.
Upon arrival in Leeds we were fairly hungry after a 3 hour coach ride to get there. We had packed 3 burgers for such a situation and went in search of shelter where we could consume our food away from the cold. As we needed the fine resource of the internet to check our next destination we set our sites on a place that would offer free wifi. Walking by we spotted the ultimate destination that was to suit all our needs - a busy McDonald's with wifi - a perfect place where we could eat our food without getting looks as who could tell the difference between burgers anyway :P
After our cheeky lunch break we made way round the city centre admiring the architecture and the little things such as street musicians whose jazz music made the walk all the more merry. Then headed over to this new shopping centre where we had to meet up with someone who was going to put us up for the night and receive a city map from them. And boy was it busy, had to wait in a line to get to the escalator and you could just see the masses flow as a current. Even though this was a shopping centre it proved to be quite impressive being practically outside with a glass roof and connections between different buildings which might not be the best thing with all the cold weather, but looks cool so oh well. Had some interesting sculptures that caught our eye such as this one of a horse:
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| Photo by Ieva Cesnulaityte |
After walking the highly commercial streets we decided to make our way to the outskirts of the centre and ended up in this building which we though would be a museum or something along those lines but ended up to be another shopping bazaar, but this time filled with specialty stores and hosting a vinyl record market that day. After looking through the selection I picked out a few records to bring back as gifts:
Another little shop - 'Candy Candy' caught our eyes. It sold handmade scented soaps and other bath products which smelled of beautiful summer dreams :) It took us a while to chose the perfect ones, but I finally set my mind on these two:
The last one we went into was this small bead store, had a chat with the owner and bought some beads for our future handmade jewelry. A lovely experience and now just need to all meet up for a crafty afternoon with the girls :)
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| Photo by Ieva Cesnulaityte |
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| Photo by Ieva Cesnulaityte |
After walking around a couple more arcades (seriously, Leeds is such a shopping city) we headed off to our temporary residence where we ended up spending about 4 hours lounged in some incredibly comfortable sofas, eating our typical student dinner - pasta, in 3 goes as the the only pot we had to use was only big enough for one portion to be cooked at a time. We then spent an interesting evening keeping people company at their pre-drinks as we were not keen on going out before our 6am wake up the next day...
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| Photo by Ieva Cesnulaityte |
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| Photo by Agota Mockute |
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| Photo by Ieva Cesnulaityte |
We left Leeds in a hurry the next morning rushing out to catch our bus to the airport not realizing that we can't actually open the automatic gate to leave... so we did what anyone would do, we climbed over the gate and hurried off as there was no time to wake up anyone to let us out as decent people. Oh well, this way is much more fun anyway :D
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