Baltic Cycling Tour #4: from Liepaja to Kuldiga

Cloudio could not summarize better this stage of our tour, so I’ll reuse his words (and hope that Google won’t penalize me for doing so): The 5th stage of the BCT 2013 start incredibly fast: we reached Aizpute, 50km from our starting point in Liepaja, in only 1hr! Then we jumped off the bus, had… Continua a leggere Baltic Cycling Tour #4: from Liepaja to Kuldiga

Baltic Cycling Tour #3: from Sventoj to Karosta (entering Latvia!)

After a difficult second day of our tour, the third stage was for me the hardest. We started cycling a bit after 8am, following the A11 road. It was a boring main road but at least there were almost no cars till the border with Latvia, that we crossed after taking the ritual pictures 🙂… Continua a leggere Baltic Cycling Tour #3: from Sventoj to Karosta (entering Latvia!)

Baltic Cycling Tour #2: from Kláipéda to Sventoj

The second stage of the Baltic Cycling Tour proved to be very intense and nerve-breaking, due to our competitive nature. We started from Kláipéda and lost each other after few hundred meters. I was happy but soon he found me and we continue together. We took the cycling path going through the Pajuño Park, a… Continua a leggere Baltic Cycling Tour #2: from Kláipéda to Sventoj

Baltic Cycling Tour #1: from Kláipéda to Nida

Our cycling tour could not start better: the Curonian Spit is a 98 km strip of land that connects Kaliningrad (Russia) with Kláipéda (Lithuania). It’s so beautiful that because UNESCO heritage, and before the border with Russia has a town, Nida, that is a popular summer destination for affluent Lithuanians. From Kláipéda we took a ferry… Continua a leggere Baltic Cycling Tour #1: from Kláipéda to Nida

Baltic Cycling Tour: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia

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My trip around the Baltic country started the 6th July in Klaipeda, Lithuania, ended 14 days later in Tallinn, Estonia. Together with my spiritual guide Cloudio “guruju” we had total more than 500 km in 10 cycling days across 3 different countries. Not bad, considering that we had no training and that bike was chosen as… Continua a leggere Baltic Cycling Tour: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia