Baltic Sea Info Tour/Vilnius

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Please announce your participation for the infotour or parts of it as soon as possible to tour AT nuclear-heritage.net[1] or at telephone +358 41 7243254. We need your announcements to plan and prepare food and accommodation as well as the actions and events very urgently!

Alternative Tour Stop in Vilnius

Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania. The country had the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Ignalina in operation until December 31, 2009. As a precondition of joining the European Union this NPP had to be shut down. The government proposed a new (Visaginas) nuclear power plant in the site of Ignalina NPP and is currently (and unsuccessfully) looking for strategic investor for the plant. In addition, people living in the country have to deal with the impacts of the nuclear power developments in the countries around: the Belarussian government wants a nuclear power plant close to the border to Lithuania, appr. 50 kilometres to Vilnius; in Kaliningrad, at the border with Lithuania, the new so-called "Baltic NPP" is under construction; Poland has also proposed it's first nuclear reactor.

The Baltic Sea Info Tour will stop as an alternative for those participants who can't join the infotour stop in Belarus in Vilnius from July 15 - July 16. After these two days of activities the participants of the infotour will have a few resting days in the region for recreation.

The Baltic Sea Info Tour will have press conference, several public street actions in Vilnius with focus on the NPP developments in Lithuania, Poland and those countries, whose reactors release most of radioactivity into the Baltic sea - Sweden and Finland, and we will have the chance to connect to anti-nuclear activists from Lithuania.


Local contacts

Linas

  • phone: +37067568116

Laura

  • phone: +37069010187

Travel Schedule of the Vilnius Stop

  • Wednesday (Jul 14): travelling from the previous stop in Riga to Vilnius
only those participants who don't join the stop in Belarus
  • Thursday - Friday (Jul 15-16): STOP in Vilnius
  • Sunday (Jul 18): travelling from the previous stop in Belarus to Vilnius
  • Sunday - Monday (Jul 17-19): resting days
  • Tuesday (Jul 20): travelling to the next stop in Jezioro Żarnowieckie


Resting Days

On Saturday July 17, Sunday July 18 and Monday July 19 the participants of the infotour will have two resting days in Vilnius to relax and recreate. They can explore the city or go to nature areas nearby. During those days accommodation and cooking possibilities will still be provided in Vilnius, but the participants will entertain themselves - no programme will be provided by the local activists.

Info on what to see in Vilnius can be found here: http://www.vilnius-tourism.lt/presentation/site.html http://www.vilnius-tourism.lt/

We recommend to see Republic of Uzupis in Vilnius: http://www.vilnius-tourism.lt/topic.php?tid=64&sid=94&aid=537&more=y

Variuos kinds of events in Lithuania can be found there: http://www.eb.lt/en.php3

Other Information about the Vilnius Stop

  • accommodation in the apartment of local people - bring a sleeping bag and foam mattress with you!
  • cooking possibilities for everyone in the place; a little amount of food can be dumpster dived and cheap food is also available in shops(expenses have to be covered by participants themselves)
  • there will be Wifi Internet in the place, but computer will not be available all the time. So if you think you will need to use Internet much, bring your laptop.
  • If you have ISIC card, use it for buying bus or trolleybus tickets in Vilnius and trains around Lithuania. Public transport schedules in Vilnius: http://www.marsrutai.info/vilnius/?a=p.routes&transport_id=bus&t=xhtml&l=en

Trains in Lithuania: http://www.litrail.lt


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