My name is Ricardo, I'm 17 years old, and I'm a student in the 12th grade at Loulé Secondary School. I enjoy programming, and I'm happy to have this opportunity with the Erasmus+ Project.

I'm looking forward to this activity, where I hope to learn more about programming, experience another culture, make new friends, and appreciate every moment of this trip.

Virtiniai is a traditional Lithuanian dish, consisting of stuffed dumplings. Made with potato dough or wheat flour, they are cooked and served with various accompaniments.

Džiugas is a premium Lithuanian cheese, appreciated for its complex flavor and granular texture. Aged for long periods, it features notes of nuts and fruits, being used in various culinary dishes.

Today was a busy day. We took the bus to Lisbon, then we took the metro to the airport, and then we spent the night on the plane.

We visit one of the biggest malls in Vilnius

"We went to Akropolis, one of the biggest shopping in Vilnius. It was amazing, something we've never seen in Portugal."

It's quite high at the top of the castle you can see the whole city from up there, and it has an incredible feeling at the top.

There are many paintings and statues inside the church they are quite old

The museum was amazing, it was different, i had never seen anything like it. I recommend everyone to visit it 

The teacher Eglé told us that there would be an aurora borealis at night. We waited, but we didn't see anything.

Today, on the 12th, our colleague Mateus turned 17, and we surprised him.

We take ltg train to trakai at 11pm and the trip was quick

We saw something new  , benches on the road, something you don't see in Portugal, and it was quite funny.

We had lunch at a restaurant in the city of Trakai. The food was very good, but not too expensive, and the accompanying vegetable was really tasty.

After lunch, we arrived at the main attraction of Trakai , the castle. It was really cool.

We took a one-hour boat ride around the castle, passing under the bridges. It was an experience to remember for life.

After the visit, we went to have a hot chocolate at a café recommended by Professor Paulo.

For dinner, we made it at home, something similar to carbonara cooked by Chef Menelik.

We continue working on the website for the Science on Stage Lithuania project.

We had dinner at +++ which is one of the restaurants we frequent the most here in Vilnius. It's quite good and cheap.

I made my breakfast with eggs, grated cheese, and bacon. It was delicious; I'll make it again tomorrow.

We continue to develop the website for Science on Stage Lithuania.

As always, we had lunch at the same restaurant, but it’s so good that I want to go there every day.

At dinner, we ate again at +++. I have been trying a new dish every day, but this one was so good that I should have it again on other days.

As I said yesterday, today I was going to have the same breakfast again, and I did. It was very good.

Before we left, Professor Eglé gave us a snack to eat and to discuss other matters.

After the internship, I went to a shopping mall called Cup, a shopping center near the internship location.

While I was walking around Vilnius, I found a graffiti that said the word 'love' in Portuguese.

We continue to work on the website for the Science on Stage Lithuania project.

While we were waiting for the laundry to finish washing, we visited a game store near the laundry.

We had lunch at a restaurant that Professor Paulo recommended to us. It was very good and cheap.

In the afternoon, we visited the Vilnius Museum of Electricity, which was the first power plant in Vilnius.

We had an event about some inventions by the Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, and mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Today we had more time to explore other places to have dinner thanks to the festival. We walked around Vilnius a lot and found a kebab place called Jammi that was really good and cheap.

We spent the whole afternoon in Kaunas. It's an okay city, but I don't know if it's because it was Sunday, but compared to Vilnius, I liked Vilnius much more.

Near the train station, there was a shopping center called Akropolis.

We went to Jammi again for dinner, we liked it a lot. But today, we ordered takeout and brought it home to eat leisurely because we arrived late from Kaunas and almost everything was closed.

I continued working on the website for the Science on Stage Lithuania project, and it's almost finished.

I continued to explore Vilnius and discovered more places in the city.

While walking around Vilnius, I found a restaurant called Čili Pica. It had pizzas, pasta, traditional Lithuanian dishes, and was inexpensive. We plan to go back there on other days.

We had lunch at the same place near the internship site. Today, there were spinach dishes, but it was just as good as the other days.

Professor Eglé gave us a traditional Lithuanian cake called šakotis, and it was very good. I had been interested in trying it, but it was very expensive.

I continued to explore the city better with the goal of getting to know it completely, and I think I now know almost the entire city, at least the best areas.

We ordered food to be delivered again because we found that it's cheaper than going to a restaurant. 

We decided to return to +++ on this day because it is one of the best restaurants we know.

Teacher Eglė made some pastries for us for lunch, and they were really good.

The old astronomical observatory of Vilnius University, opened in 1753, and the new University observatory near Vingis Park, built in 1921, gradually appeared inside the city of Vilnius where conditions turned out to be unsatisfactory for astronomical observations.

Since we couldn't go to the laundry yesterday, we had to go this morning.

In the afternoon, since we didn't have anything planned, we went to explore and see what was happening in Vilnius. 

The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius is dedicated to displaying artifacts and records from the 50-year period of Soviet occupation in Lithuania 

The prisons had very poor conditions for the people who were imprisoned. There were cells with only a bench, but the prison seemed to be very secure. It must have been difficult to escape from there.

In this room, we watched a video showing that Pope Francis visited here and prayed with this candle when he was at this museum 

After the museum, we went to have lunch at the CUP shopping mall

For dinner, we ordered food again because it was cheaper

Today, Monday, May 27, 2024, was the last day we had with Professor Eglė as she had to travel the next day

I want to thank Professor Eglė for recommending various places for us to visit in Lithuania, taking us to the observatory, the escape room, and to see the astronaut, and for always being available for us

I wish her the best of luck and hope she achieves all her dreams and goals

Lately, we've been ordering food almost all the time because it's cheaper, and we get to try different things

As usual, after the internship, we took the opportunity to walk around Vilnius

We found another outlet in Vilnius, and it is much better than the Outlet Park we saw a few weeks ago

Today, we went out to eat and again at +++. 

We ordered food again because it was cheaper.

Today was the last day, and we had to pack everything up. We had to help our colleague Menelik arrange the computers, as there were around 30 computers. 

After the internship, we went for a walk in Vilnius again. I went to Vilnius Outlet again to see if there was anything worthwhile. 

Today, we welcomed Professor Ricardo Jacob, who will guide us back to Portugal. However, he will stay with us in Lithuania until Saturday. 

We took Professor Ricardo to visit some of the best shopping malls in Vilnius so that, as he will be in Lithuania for a short time, he can see the best things right away. 

We went to eat at the shopping mall, and I ended up eating at Subway, which was a restaurant we liked.

The last dinner in Lithuania was at the same place where we had the first meal in Lithuania. The first time, almost no one liked it, but later we all ended up liking it, and the professors were right to recommend this restaurant the first time. We had chosen the wrong dish before, but when we chose the right one, that's when we enjoyed eating at Bernelių Užeiga. 

Today, since we were going to have lunch later, we took the opportunity to eat everything left in our rooms. 

We said goodbye to our room, where we stayed throughout the whole month of this fantastic adventure.

For our last meal, we went to 7 Fridays, a restaurant that we really liked in Lithuania, and we had to eat there one last time. 

We only arrived at the hotel in the early hours of the 2nd and went to bed late, but we woke up early to make the most of the remaining hours in Lisbon.

We had lunch again at Subway.