Day 21 - We bought our Białystok-to-Vilnius train tickets in Warsaw and didn't realize what a bargain we would get. We boarded our Polish train at 10:30 am and it travelled to a town of Suwałki on the Polish side of the border.
For some reason, perhaps track renovation, we had to disembark and board three buses. We were driven for more than one hour across the non-existent EU border with Lithuania. Mockava is not really anywhere. It was in the middle of woods on a dirt road. However, we were promised that a Lithuanian train would come to pick us up.
It arrived on the dot and we continued to our destination in the capital of Lithuania.
We checked into Hotel Ivoleta at around six o'clock pm. Oh, we had to change the clock an hour ahead for this part of our trip. We were pretty tired although we hadn't done much except watch the scenery from train and bus windows today. We couldn't help but walk a little about the Vilnius historic city center. (This is a Wikipedia link.)
We will have our work cut out for us seeing this city in three days!