We arrived to Poznan at lunch time (Catalan lunch time). Tomasz and the rest of the Polish Baikal Support Team joined us in a quick meal. The Subaru will remain in good hands in Poznan until we come back.
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| BMW prepared to go |
Finally we are in one single car, the BMW. We left quite fast, since we wanted to reach Riga that very same night, but after 3 hours of Polish east roads we desist. Just one call and the night was arranged in Warsaw, easy. Dawid showed us his new shared flat, he just moved in 4 days ago, packs and bags were still all over the place, so two new backpacks on the floor for one night will fit in perfectly. Only -4º C in the Warsaw night, regular clothes on, no problem at all.
Next morning moving towards Riga. Polish north east roads are not so good like in the west side, and the cold, wind and ice makes the trip a training for driving in bad and nasty conditions. The border to enter Lithuania is just a regular border, no one stopped us, besides the bad roads and the ice: the speed was reduced to 70 km/h. Impossible to control the car in these conditions, trucks, crazy drivers and ice everywhere. After several hours, a new border to Latvia, no problems either. And Latvian roads become better, much better, the speed increases again and we reach Riga at night.
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| Embassy street |
We meet Konstantin, the boyfriend of one Lena’s friend, at the embassy street (note: the Austrian embassy has a big nice building, next to it, there is an identical building, the Spanish embassy, but this one is shared with two more countries: Greece and Uzbekistan, maybe Italy will join the building in a few days, for sure, Germany embassy will pay the rent).
Konstantin invites us for dinner in a big restaurant in Riga, some beers and then take us to visit Riga at night, we end in a Cuban bar, and drinking for the health of Fidel. Then we went to sleep, but not before we eat something at home again.
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| Viva la Revolución! |
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| Konstantin guide tour |
On the next morning, great breakfast and we say goodbye and spasibo to Konstantin, he was really nice.
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| Konstantin's Breakfast |
