Helping needy car rentals in Vilnius airport

After a long week at work in Brussels I was really looking forward to my weekend in Lithuania; my fellow travbuddy and good internet friend Ewooce (Ieva) had shown me so many pictures of the country that I knew that I would like.

I was flying with Baltic Air to Vilnius and I was arriving quiet late local time due to a delay of almost one hour in Brussels airport. The flight went as such very well and I was sitting next to a very beautiful Lithuanian girl and that was not the last beautiful girl in this wonderful country.

The airport in Vilnius is a mix between old and new; the area that meets you first is new, but when you enter the transit area it was stepping back to an old railway station.

I was looking for the Hertz car rental and found it to the left in the arrival area. I was not first in line in from of was a French couple standing and I had a great time watching them. I would guess that the both were academics and had been concentrating about their books all their life. Everything that they had to present in order to rent the car, like driving license, credit card and passport was lost. I watch them empty her bag 3 times; and my God she had loads of stuff in there. I gave up being in a hurry (I actually wasn’t) and really started to enjoy the scene. The questions they were asking this poor rental guy was also far out, but the couple were always smiling and were friendly and also excusing their mess to me but I said to them just to take it easy. After they finally got answers on all their questions and got all the paperwork done, they left for the parking lot and their car.

The guy behind the counter almost cracked when they had left and excused and said that it probably was the first time they had rented a car. I quickly got my papers done and received my car key and went for the parking lot.

At the parking lot they were still there; the husband was trying to open the trunk to put in the luggage while the woman went to me and asked how to turn on the lights!! She had been studying the instruction book but had been lost in the Lithuanian language, which I understood; not the language but why she was lost. I helped her with the main things in the car and made sure that the trunk opened as well. I wished them a good trip and made sure that I left before them.

The drive in to the city was very simple and very short. I had looked in a map before my arrival and I rather quickly found the Holiday Inn hotel that I had booked. The hotel had a free secured parking behind the hotel, which you don’t find many places and the service was good at the reception.

I went straight to bed with my lonely planet because I wanted to get an early start the next morning; I had a lot to see.