During my stay to Vilnius, I made a special effort to track down the hard-to-find former KGB Prison, which is now a museum and memorial to the people executed by the Soviet regime. The building, located just off the main street, was used by the KGB from the 1940s up to the early 1990s (abandoned in its present state when the USSR broke up and Lithuania achieved independence) to interrogate tens of thousands of Lithuanian prisoners and torture them over a period of weeks or months to induce confessions, and then either deport them to Siberia or execute them in the prison's specially built execution chamber. This is first museum of its kind in any of the former Soviet states, and I found it to be a deeply moving experience. I hope the latest images in my Typepad gallery speak for themselves.

Meanwhile, I've been keeping up with my Mirror Project submissions. This photo was taken in a fabulous little not-yet-discovered-by-Latvians Pop Art-inspired cafe in Riga. The ambience was playful, colourful and youthful and had a tasty international cafe style menu to match. It had only been open a month so it was a delightfully unexpected discovery....and one of the reasons why I love travelling so much!