Those of you out there avidly following the schenanigans of teekondBALTICA will have noticed a reduction in the frequency of blogging in the past few days. As Will announced earlier today, this can be best attributed to a structural failure in team dynamics. The united front that prevailed through scandinavia and russia has faultered due to differences of objectives. The Baltic states have always been devicive in geo politics and so too in the teeko politics!
Will and I turned North again to The Hill of crosses in Lithuania - an amazing hill covered in thousands of crosses and religious symbols. I'm far from a devout christan but it was an impressive spectacle nonetheless. Apparently the whole area was once flooded with sewage by the communists and was dismantled frequently during Russian times, it keeps coming back though.
We parted with Mike at a petrol station Kleipeda with a handshake and a nod. He's off to the South of Poland
We are now in Kaunas, Lithuania. We will cross in to Poland tomorrow after extricating the bikes from the very tight hotel lobby that we squeezed them in to this evening. Next stop the shipyards of Gdansk. From there we will complete to circumnavigation of the baltic sea via germany.
For the record, the last couple days went: Parnu biker bar, nude beaches, gravel roads at 50mph, beer at camp, losing each other on the way to Riga, Simon crashes his bike, blazing row at the roadside in Latvia. Mike and Will's weird hotel, Simon's computer game ride up the curonian spit in the dark and rain.
Cheers
S
Ps crazy Lithuanian kids doing donuts in the car park outside
Pps According to the recptionist, Kaunas is dangerous at night!
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