An expensive day out by general Lithuanian standards: €8 entry pp €2 parking €1.50 to take photos!
Like so many things here excluding the nature, disappointing. The park is beautifully laid out. Huge, generous grounds, lots of space for each art work, carefully placed within an environment. Lovely walks from one piece to the next, nice mixtures of shade and sunlight.
It's silly things like the silver plates with artist info, some unreadable cos of the sun reflection, even more are faded.
Lots of what I call 'wank art'; (popular?) artists who get huge grants and make big HUGE meaningless crap instead of small meaningless crap that they can bullshit about til the cows come home about.
The aforesaid are interspersed with deep, amazing, clever, tricksy, subtle pieces.
You can buy a postcard to send to friends with a special postmark for Europe it costs €2!
Our visit is cut short by my mate (who is always late insisting we return to Vilinius exactly at five - I said we'd be back 'around 5' - got phoned at 1 minute to.
The lady at the gate recommended the restaurant, which is over priced, has a very badly translated menu and nothing we were interested in (e.g. soup of the day?!) is available today. The waitress speaks fair American English, she is polite but typifies my experience of Lithuanian attitude in a sort of off hand coldness, that doesn't invite any attempt at warmth or friendliness and doesn't issue any.
Himself didn't mind was already fed up of my commentary
I didn't take photos of the pieces I really disliked!
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