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matcrazy1 Says: I drove to Rudamina by my car from Poland via Budzisko - Kalvarija border crossing point. Rudamina is located in southern Lithuania, very close to border of Poland, along the highway 134 Kalvarija - Lazdijai.Rudamina is accessible by scheduled buses from Kalvarija, Lazdijai...
matcrazy1 Says: Rudamina was located mostly on the southern side of highway 134 Kalvarija - Lazdijai, I drove. First I noticed tops of Rudamina parish church towers among trees on the right and I turned right and parked my car just by the parish church.Then I drove back to the highway 134...
matcrazy1 Says: I met many, even very many white storks both in Lithuania and in north-eastern Poland. This one on my picture put up a nest on the top of a house along the road from Rudamina to Lazdijai. There were many stork's nests located on a top of phone or electrical posts as well. In...
matcrazy1 Says: Look at this column, topped by an angel statue, put among beautiful coniferous trees by Rudamina parish church. It was a monument to Lithuanian priest and fighter for Lithuanian independence Antanas Milukas (1871 - 1943). There were quite many such wooden and lofty columns...
Greenhouses or rather plastic tunnels
matcrazy1 Says: There were quite many small greenhouses located by local houses in Rudaminy. Usually they looked similar to that one on my picture. They were not fit with glass but with plastic foil which created more a kind of a plastic tunnel than a greenhouse.As I know the only...
matcrazy1 Says: I was lucky to see a few churches in the area close to Rudamina. I found that church towers were usually topped as on my picture. There was a wooden, cubic shape structure on the top of a church tower with a holy cross put on it. I have never seen something like this...
matcrazy1 Says: There was unbelievable but... pretty mess around many local houses. Rudamina's, Lithuanian or the Eastern (the Southern ?) local custom ? In the USA I was told and I saw quite different... Arizonian (southern ?) mess: look :-). Well, a mess (but clean, please) is always more...
Local honey and celadon colour
matcrazy1 Says: There were quite many wooden houses in and around Rudamina which were painted in similar colour (celadon?) to this one on my picture. Enlarge, please to see the two strange cubic, wooden constructions put by the house - the old beehives. Hmm... I didn't try any honey there...
Homemade drinks and drunk Brussels :-)
matcrazy1 Says: This older guy on my picture was preparing something special in this large machine put outdoors by his house. What was that? Juice or... moonshine? I think some juice... machines for moonshine look different, right? And, as I know it's not allowed to produce any alcoholic...
Lazy, boring, gossiping, the best life?
matcrazy1 Says: Rudamina was a village where everyone knew everyone, I was sure. The simple life looked lazy and boring there. There were no attractions for locals (or I didn't find any) except... other locals. Is simple life the best or... gossiping, lazy and boring ?Locals used to stop a...
matcrazy1 Says: There was no tourist information in and on Rudamina. There were inscriptions on a few graves and monuments located around parish church but exclusively in Lithuanian. I couldn't understand them.There was written something on this wooden statue of Jesus Christ, which stood...
matcrazy1 Says: Well, except no information and some information given in Lithuanian I found this commemorative plaque fixed to a wall of Rudamina parish church by it's northern door. It was written in Latin, language widely used esp. by clergy in this area in the past. Now? Latin is used...
matcrazy1 Says: I didn't visit probably the only point of tourist interest in Rudamina, maybe except a parish church and graves around. Well, I was very close, a few hundreds meters only. But... there was no information neither at place nor in my travel books. Later on I found very short...
matcrazy1 Says: This manor house on my picture stood opposite to a church and was proudly called Rudamina Palace by natives. Well, it was the only edifice in the village which was renovated, clean and surrounded by mown grass. It was built at the end of 18th century. I have no idea who...
matcrazy1 Says: I found this wooden cottage on the right (southern) side of highway 134 from Rudamina to Lazdijai. Notice stork nest with white stork on its top, a mess around and wild, high, unmown grass.Welcome to Lithuanian countryside :-).
matcrazy1 Says: From the main highway 134 I turned southwards to main, asphalt street of Radumina and after maybe 1 km the asphalt pavement ended. Unpaved road to a village called Zimaitkiemis started there. Well, the village was accessible by paved road from nearby town of Lazdijai. But...
matcrazy1 Says: This made of stone cross, on my picture, was put on the grave of Juozas Zdebskis (1929-1986), Lifhuanian priest, defender of the faith and freedom of religion under Soviet regime killed in an automobile accident arranged by the KGB. It looked very old or was just damaged...
matcrazy1 Says: I decided to stop in Rudamina when I saw two white towers of local church. Driving main highway 134 from Kalvarija to Lazdijai I had to turn right. The church stood among old trees on a small hill, 100 m futher. Well, a little bit neglected, from the outside, church looked...
Off the beaten path parking lot
matcrazy1 Says: At the end of the main street of Rudamina an asphalt street changed to unpaved road. At that place there was wooden direction sign "RUDAMINOS PILIAKALNIS" to the right. Short unpaved road leaded to the parking lot on my picture, surely unguarded parking.That time I had no...
matcrazy1 Says: This is the main street of Radumina on my picture. There were no walkways along and houses were hidden behind trees growing along. There was almost no traffic when I was driving there. Well, there were walking locals, one or two old cars and this one cart drawn by a horse....
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Walking around the church I discovered a few graves of which this one on my picture looked the most interesting as someone took special care about it. That time...
Q: Please tell me if the Rudamina in these pictures is the town close to the border of Poland or the town close to Vilnius. Thank...
A: Which pictures are you speaking of ? Maybe then we can help you, Darren.
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Please even do not try to look for any information on Rudamina in any travel books or in the web. Hmm... you can eventually ask locals if you want to know more and if you know Lithuanian (sometimes......
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