Movie review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Hello! Do I even need to introduce this movie?! ‘It’s Rogue…Rogue One‘. Let’s review it! IMDb summary: The Rebellion makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow. Before we start, if you are interested, this is my The Force Awakens review from last year and

Fall Run 2016

Hello! Welcome to the last sports update post this summer. Well, it’s technically no longer summer, but, to me, the autumn doesn’t start until I leave for Scotland and that’s only happening on Tuesday. Anyway, today’s entry is dedicated to another running event I participated in – in my native language, it’s called Azuolyno Begimas which

Swiss Swimming Marathon 2016

Hi! This is just a quick update post for those who actually read my writings about sports events (thank you, BTW)! I started my 8th open water swimming season by participating in the 7th annual Swiss Swimming Marathon. The marathon was started in 2010 and I haven’t missed a single one of them. Usually, the

Kaunas Marathon 2015

Hello! A few weeks ago, I’ve participated in the last ‘big’ running event – Kaunas Marathon 2015. This was the 3rd annual marathon of my city and I had run in all of them. Blog post about the 2014 marathon here. The weather was terrible for running. The sun was shining from the early morning and

Productive weekend

Hello! I used to think that nothing really happens in my native city of Kaunas but this weekend proved me wrong…very very wrong. Not only were there a wide variety of cultural events (Loreen concert on Friday, Jazz festival throughout the whole weekend), but also a plethora of sport’s competitions and movements! And I participated in

Lithuania’s Independence Day Run 2015

Hello my dear readers! Today, I officially opened my running season of 2015 with a first running competition. The marathon was held in order to celebrate my country’s Restoration of Independence Day. We have 2 independence days in Lithuania: in 1918, on the 16th of February we announced our Independence but during the 2nd World

Movie review: Unbroken

Hi! On Monday, I went to the cinema to watch Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken. I have seen several films depicting World War II events from different angles (Schindler’s list, Fury, Inglorious Basterds, Pearl Harbor, Forest of Gods and The Imitation Game) and now Unbroken joins this list. In short I would describe the film as a

Swimming marathon: Platelee-2014, Lithuania

Hello! Last week. I participated in the 33rd annual swimming marathon PLATELEE-2014 which was held in little town in western part of Lithuania. This swimming marathon is the longest running outdoor swimming event in my country and this year it has attracted the biggest number of participants yet. 161 swimmers chose the distance of 1.8

Swimming marathon: Lampedziai (Kaunas) 2014

Hi! On July 6th I and about 100 other swimmers participated in 2nd swimming marathon this summer. July 6TH is a national celebration in Lithuania (not just an international kissing day) – it’s coronation day of the only king Lithuania ever had. (In 1253 Mindaugas was crowed the king of Lithuania) so the swimming marathon was dedicated to

Kaunas running marathon + Sunday reunion

Good day everybody! Yesterday (on Sunday) I participated in one of the last running marathons this summer – 2nd annual Kaunas Marathon. Like last year, I’ve chose 10 km distance and did my best time yet -1 hour 5 minutes. The total number of runners was 3000, but 10 km distance was the most popular between