Around the Adriatic Sea 2026: Trieste – Dubrovnik
All photos: Balkan photos, city photos. The photos of the cycle route are listed in reverse chronological order. Those of the cities are listed chronologically.
Monday evening at 7pm I had arranged to meet Robertas and his friends from the Vilnius Tibet support group. He could not have chosen a more symbolic meeting place: Tibet Square in the heart of the old town. This square is in the territory of the 'Free Republic of Uzupis', an artists' quarter in Vilnius that the Dalai Lama had previously visited and had awarded him honorary citizenship.
In 2001, he held a lecture in a large arena, met the traveller/artist Jurga Ivanauskaite, who created the design of the mural on the stupa/electricity cabinet and visited Kaunas and several other places.
Mural by Jurga Ivanauskaite
In 2019, an incident took place with the Chinese Embassy. Following the protests in Hong Kong against Chinese policies, the Lithuanian solidarity movement had formed a people's chain, modelled on the 600-km-long 'Baltic Way' that the people of the three Baltic states formed in 1989 to commemorate the signing of the secret protocols between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that were fateful to them.
All photos: Balkan photos, city photos. The photos of the cycle route are listed in reverse chronological order. Those of the cities are listed chronologically.
In Venice, I visited the Biennale at the Arsenale, the Giardini and various venues around the city. I also took the opportunity to see the Pinault collection at Punta della Dogana and a compelling exhibition by Michael Armitage at Palazzo Grassi.
