Happy birthday David !. Left Vilnius (Lithuania) this morning and followed some good country roads to the border with Latvia. We took piccies of the EU / Latvia sign and expected a border crossing. instead we found a patchwork quilt of tarmac.After a mile we turned off therubish tarmac onto a dirt road, I thought it would be a few hundred yards long & then join a proper road.....but it went on for about 12km !. That's 12km in third gear at 20mph. I was moaning about Poland not having many motorways a few days ago but these guys only have tarmam on the equivalent of the A1/6 etc etc, see the piccies. We carried on for most of the day switching between tarmac & dirt roads. The weird thing was these dirt roads had road signs & bus stops. Occasionally a car would come from the opposite direction at about 50mph, then nothing for the next half hour.
Lots of storks nesting on top of electricity poles. I was thinking that if Latvia get some EU cash to upgrade their road network it will probably bankrupt Europe.
Even stranger was crossing the border into Estonia & arriving at our hotel which is brilliant, we even have a sauna in our room ! (yet a few kms up the road they dont have tarmac ?). Off through Estonia to Tallinn in the morning - have checked GPS & maps to look for alternative routes just in case tarmac is in short supply.
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