on the road – Ecotopia Biketour

2 days, 180 km, 3 punctures, 1 thunderstorm

luhukasu November 17, 2016 December 22, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After having survived the hippie-festival the biketour was heading Riga. We had 2 days to make the ~170km. Quiet tough, regarding that normally, we do normally between 40 and 80 kilometers per day… But we had a good road and not really any questions about the way. Just all the time along the coast. Never ending pinewoods on both sides of the road, every now and then…

between Tartu and Tallinn

roger October 26, 2016 November 15, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Here some late impressions from the last bit: In Estonia some people build houses and boats with local material and traditional knowledge… … use small and big rocket stoves… … and transform trash to art. We cycled under wild skies … … drove past buildings from different ages that are still in use … and found our “Kôo”…

Mud, rain and some bins full of food

luhukasu August 29, 2016 December 22, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After Kurava, we had a really crazy cycling day. As it was already raining for the last several days, we were quiet happy that only little drops are falling from the sky. It almost felt like good wheather! (Actually our last host told us something that it would be the most rainy summer in latvia since 15 years…) But it was not cold, so who cares. At…

The Curonian Spit

CharlieCharlie August 10, 2016 August 29, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. From Kaunas, the biketour cycled for 5 days to reach the Curonian Spit, a long piece of land that starts in Kaliningrad (Russia) and streches for 100km in the ocean next to Lithuania, where you have to get a ferry back to Klaipeda on mainland Lithuania. We took the ferry to Nida (again, some kind of a puzzle in which we had to fit 14 bikes, 3…