Esu viena i\u0161 t\u0173 \u017emoni\u0173, pas kuriuos namuose ant sien\u0173 kabo ne paveikslai, o nutrinami \u0161ali\u0173 \u017eem\u0117lapiai ir t\u016bkstantin\u0117s gra\u017eiausi\u0173 pasaulio viet\u0173 ir pastat\u0173 puzl\u0117s. O mokiniai turb\u016bt karts nuo karto susim\u0105sto, ar slapta nedirbu kelioni\u0173 agent\u016brai, nes vis kartoju: „Jei mokot\u0117s kalb\u0173, turite keliauti ir jas i\u0161bandyti!” Gr\u012f\u017eusi i\u0161 vienos \u0161alies i\u0161 karto ie\u0161kau biliet\u0173 ir kit\u0105 ir taip jau i\u0161\u0117jo, kad \u0161\u012f kart\u0105 ta \u0161alis buvo \u0160vedija.<\/p>\n
I\u0161keliavome kartu su drauge. K\u0117l\u0117m\u0117s 3 val. ryte, i\u0161skridome 6, o \u0160vedijoje buvome 6:15 vietos laiku. Tik nusileid\u0119 \u012f Skavst\u0105 oro uost\u0105 nusprend\u0117me i\u0161gerti kavos. Kava kainavo 60 \u0161vedi\u0161k\u0173 kron\u0173 (6 eurai) – supratome, kad ryt\u0105 galime prad\u0117ti ir be kavos Nusigavome \u012f savo u\u017esakyt\u0105 airbnb kambar\u012f, kuris buvo 9 km nuo miesto centro. Pasid\u0117jome daiktus ir nieko nelaukdamos i\u0161siruo\u0161\u0117me \u012f miest\u0105 – atvykome tik 3 dienoms, tod\u0117l nenor\u0117jome gai\u0161ti n\u0117 sekund\u0117s.<\/p>\n
Temperat\u016bra niekada nebuvo \u017eemiau 26 laipsni\u0173, o vaizdai buvo tokie nuostab\u016bs, jog nuolat tur\u0117davome sustoti bent kelioms minut\u0117ms ir tiesiog gro\u017e\u0117tis, stengtis visus tuos jausmus ir \u012fsp\u016bd\u017eius sugerti \u012f save. Prie\u0161 va\u017eiuodamos abi tiesiog tik\u0117jom\u0117s kelioms akimirkoms pab\u0117gti nuo rutinos, ta\u010diau atsid\u016br\u0117m\u0117 tokioje pasaki\u0161koje erdv\u0117je, kad vis klausiamai susi\u017evalgydavom ir imdavom juoktis, kod\u0117l nesugalvojom atvykti \u010dia anks\u010diau.<\/p>\n
Per tris dienas nu\u0117jome 100 kilometr\u0173. Pagal tiltus ir \u017eymiausius pastatus jau be navigacijos ar vietini\u0173 gyventoj\u0173 pagalbos (kurie, beje, visi iki vieno puikiai kalb\u0117jo angli\u0161kai!) rasdavome ne tik keli\u0105 namo, bet ir ie\u0161komus objektus. Pusdien\u012f praleidome Skansen parke po atviru dangumi. \u0160is parkas \u2013 tarsi skandinavi\u0161ka Rum\u0161i\u0161ki\u0173 versija, kur galima pamatyti ne tik pastatus, bet ir vilkus, bried\u017eius ir me\u0161kas tobulai jiems pritaikytose aplinkose. Pasigro\u017e\u0117jome 17 a. laivu Vasa muziejuje, neplanuotai pamat\u0117me, kaip kei\u010diasi karalien\u0117s sargai ir gal 15 kart\u0173 i\u0161lipome ne savo metro stotel\u0117je, kad pasid\u017eiaugtume meno instaliacijomis po\u017eemin\u0117se stotel\u0117se (nepaprastai \u012fsp\u016bdinga metro sistema!).<\/p>\n
Kelion\u0117s laikas prab\u0117go taip greitai, o nueit\u0173 kilometr\u0173 ir \u012fsp\u016bd\u017ei\u0173 buvo tiek daug, kad jaut\u0117m\u0117s, lyg gyvenom ten jau kelis m\u0117nesius. Ta\u010diau, net nebaig\u0119 i\u0161krauti lagamin\u0173, v\u0117l juos ruo\u0161\u0117me gr\u012f\u017eimui \u012f Lietuv\u0105. Gr\u012f\u017eome namo, \u012fkv\u0117p\u0117me ir prad\u0117jom ruo\u0161tis naujai kelionei…<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t hang paintings on my walls. I hang scratch off maps and 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles with the world\u2019s most beautiful places and buildings. To be fair, my students probably think that I\u2019m secretly working for a travel agency. Cause I sometimes resemble a broken cuckoo clock going \u201cIf you\u2019re learning a language\u2026 TRAVEL! TRAVEL! TRAVEL!\u201d After returning from one country, I immediately start searching for tickets to a different one\u2026 and it just so happened that the next spot on the map was Sweden.<\/p>\n
I travelled with one of my best friends, Alina. We woke up at 3 am, took off at 6 and landed in Sweden at 6:15 (with a one hour time difference). The very second that we reached Skavsta airport, we both felt this huge craving for coffee. The coffee cost 60 Swedish crowns (6 euros), so instead of a cup of hot latte we had a sudden realization that it\u2019s also possible to start your day without it. Our Airbnb was 9 km from Stockholm city centre and we did not want to waste any time, so we just told our landlord HI<\/em>, dropped our bags on the floor and headed towards the city. We only had 3 days, so every second seemed precious.<\/p>\n The temperature was never below 26 and the views were never below expectations. We constantly stopped to breathe in the overwhelming emotions and images, which had so perfectly eliminated all thoughts of monotony and daily anxieties. I mean… If the tickets to Stockholm were meant to be a terminated escape plan, then boy did we feel silly not to have done it before. This city got as so mesmerized that we could not stop laughing and smiling, as if we had revealed a secret which was still hidden from everyone else.<\/p>\n We\u2019d walked 100 kilometres in three days. We were now able to find our way home or visit some famous sights merely looking at the bridges and buildings, which were the arrows of our mental compass. We were gps-free and we didn\u2019t even need any help from the local residents (who, by the way, all spoke perfect English!). We spent the half of the last day in Skansen, the world\u2019s oldest open-air museum and the Scandinavian cousin of our Lithuanian Rum\u0161i\u0161k\u0117s, with environment so beyond perfectly adopted for elks, wolves, bears and other animals that it\u2019s no less than admirable. We visited the 17th<\/sup> century ship in Vasa museum, accidentally saw the changing of the guards by the palace and got off at a wrong metro stop…15 times or so… to enjoy the underground art installations (what an absolutely impressive metro system it is!).<\/p>\n Three days went by so fast and the number of kilometres as well as the emotions were so above expected that we felt as if we\u2019d been living here for a couple of months already, whereas at the same time\u2026 we only unpacked our bags a couple of days ago and we were already packing them again\u2026<\/p>\n We did the only thing we could: came back, breathed in, breathed out, and started planning a new journey.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Esu viena i\u0161 t\u0173 \u017emoni\u0173, pas kuriuos namuose ant sien\u0173 kabo ne paveikslai, o nutrinami \u0161ali\u0173 \u017eem\u0117lapiai ir t\u016bkstantin\u0117s gra\u017eiausi\u0173 pasaulio viet\u0173 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-on-the-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakup.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}