Life Becomes More of Adventure - The Laughing Nomads - BootsnAll Travelogues

Life Becomes More of Adventure - The Laughing Nomads - BootsnAll Travelogues

Life Becomes More of Adventure
Old Town Vilnius is now on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sights. Some graffiti seems significant in this country where a staggering 91% of the 64% of the population who turned out to vote gave a resounding yes to membership in the European Union and that just this last April became a full-fledged member of NATO: "Your Life Becomes More and More of Adventure" and "The important Thing Is To Express Yourself!" Indeed, one of the more vivid images of Europe this year, but especially of Vilnius, is the sight of slim, long-legged beauties strutting confidently with an air of success in slip-on spike heels and showing off flat tanned bare midriffs above skin tight jeans that come within an inch of the pubic bone. There are solariums on every other block...no fish-white bellies here. I asked a young woman in former East Berlin what is behind the styles in dress and she answered "It is self-expression...we want to dress according to how we feel." I asked if the school authorities allowed the students to wear these clothes to school and she said they wouldn't DARE prevent us from dressing the way we want to dress! But on the other hand Sasha, our guide to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, will say "these are nice girls...not prostitutes...but they have $100 in each eye!" There will be no going back to rigidly defined socialist customs in these countries!

afigenai.