1 st track we definitly didn't do!

Again we start into the day just around 4 °C and an even slow rain. South-to-Southwest is the course we set and off we go - noisy,thirsty and slow. The Belarussian border to our left, deep forests and an seemingly endless chain of lakes to our right - so we decide to leave the gravel tracks and go greenlaning wherever we can and use it as a shortcut. It doesn't save us any time (actually vice versa) but it adds to our check- and funlist.

Since we have gained some experience more often we stop for a short hike to check out the trail ahead of us - and are rewarded with the lack of stress, damage and desaster because with all that constant downpour some tracks have turned into deep mud holes.

Again Anke manages to find a promising cabin directly on the lakeside. So after we have pushed our daily kilometer average from 170 to 250 KMS we leave Latvia behind and end our daily adventure on a huge private property of a log dealer. We are welcomed by his friendly wife and are impressed by the wonderful little house at the lak. Just the 50+ hunter trophies (wolves, deer, moose, foxes and wild boar) irritate us in the beginning, but we get used to them rather quickly. Except for that gigantic moose who seems to be spying on us all the time...

The landlady and her daughter return to their home in Vilnius and leave us with that spooky hunter husband of hers. Who turns out to be very friendly, supportive and interested in our Buddha and our journey so far. And he feels that we look starved and feeds us with a kilogram of chanterelles and a huge "Elchwurst".

We just stay for another day, roaming the forrest for mushrooms and viewing the Belarussian border we are shocked to find out that Europe (Latvia in this special case) has returned to the habit of headhunting refugees who try to enter Europe from Belarus.Read more