Everything 'went well. Vilnius reached, we even managed to obtain a visa for Russia in a few hours of Rocco! The aim was therefore to recover the lost day, so you can be in Narva, a city 'on the border between Estonia and Russia, July 17.
In seven days we got on the three Baltic countries one after another, in sections of 130-140 km per day. All three states gave us nice and strange encounters. In Lithuania, arrived at Ignalina, two boys, and Linas Sarlota, thanks to 'friend Luca, Italian coach of the Lithuanian National Biathlon, we have found a place where sleep in the storeroom of the skis in the accommodation of the team. This is a chalet by the lake, complete with a sauna!
Latvia welcomed us, unlike Lithuania, with streets mostly 'dirt. Even here, however, 'there have been meetings to remember. The first and 'was in Daugavpils, where we presented the Host Family of Pella without notice. The reception and 'was more' than warm, in this kind of home-workers from which kept entering and leaving little girls and boys.
The other meeting 'took place in Iden, remote village on the shores of Lake Lubans, the more' big in Latvia. Here Roberts, owner of a farm, put us up in the little house in the garden, offering beer, milk, uova, miele, burro, maionese, il tutto di produzione casalinga. Mentre tentavamo di degustarci il tutto, e' arrivato il figlio ventunenne, il quale ci ha simpaticamente obbligato a partecipare ad una partita di beach-volley con la cugina e l'amichetta tredicenne. Raggiunte il campo abbiamo giocato per un'ora a piedi nudi su sabbia bagnata mentre zanzare tigri ci dilaniavano le gambe. Solo grazie ad un lieve infortunio di Pella siamo riusciti a scollarcelo e, maledicendo lui e la pallavolo, ci siamo gettati nella sauna!
In Estonia le strade sono migliorate e abbiamo continuato ad avere incontri singolari, tra i quali ricordiamo quello con Deniis, conosciuto al campeggio di Kauksi il giorno prima del suo compleanno, per il quale era venuto a trovare la fidanzata owner of the campsite and was spending the week between "much drinks and midnight swims in the lake.
For the first time we saw the sea! The Baltic Sea has welcomed Sillamae, a town where we had lunch and an Englishman, who lived 12 years in Finland and just moved them ', we explained that in that city' the Soviets mined uranium. A
Narva we crossed the bridge that forms the boundary between Estonia and Russia. Russia and 'was a hit and run. The streets were initially devastated, but after St. Petersburg and 'got better. Note the stage Narva - St. Petersburg 164 km, the most 'long journey so far and we hope that it will remain'.
After the first experience of free camping in a grove Poliany out, through Vyborg, we also crossed the Finnish border (only a problem for skin damaged by + water in the photo looks a lot like Ivan Cordoba and then had to pass the "test of the double signature") from a storm water.
Now we are here in Lappeenranta, where we allowed ourselves a day to visit. Tomorrow will share
rested to start this new state, with all its news'. Sara 'long ... who knows what! A few reindeer, some bears, maybe ... we'll see Santa Claus!
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