Beautiful Latvian Countryside

 After we had a blast in Vilnius we had to continue our journey towards North. We were supposed to travel thru Latvia into Estonia in one day. Which of course is totally doable if you just sit in the car and drive, but if you plan is to explore the region it’s more like an impossible task. 

Anyway, we got up in the morning had a quick breakfast, and left our accommodation. Our first stop was in the forestland of Latvia. As we were leaving Vilnius, we had to realize the roads here weren’t that smooth and new as the ones we were driving on in Poland, and they had many highways with roundabouts however unlike in Hungary, where you can also find roundabouts on main highways here you could easily keep the highway speed thru the roundabout without dying, or destroying your car. And the reason for this is simply because their roundabouts are twice or three times bigger then the roundabouts in Hungary. 

Anyway we were driving thru beautiful forests and huge farmlands till we got to the border, there the scenery changed from forests and huge farmlands to huge farmlands and forests. 

Some picture from the border crossing.


We drove thru the most beautiful forests we’ve ever seen, until our GPS told us to take a left turn and drive into the most beautiful forest we have ever seen. We drove around 15 minutes on a gravel road, which was full of potholes with the size of small hatchbacks. Eventually we found a parking lot, and a path that lead us to our first POI’s in Latvia; The lake of Certoka Ezers, which means something like ‘the lake of the devil.’ It was a beautiful lake, with infrastructure around it. By infrastructure I mean toilets — toilets which we shitted all over! What the actual heck?! There was shit on the seat, there was shit on the wall, there was even shit on the ceiling! How did someone manage to shit on the f*cking ceiling?! And even if God has given you the talent to shit vertically, why would you shit like that in a public toilet?! Damn it. It was such a huge disappointment in humanity when we saw those beautiful wooden houses and inside they were full of shit. Sorry I got carried away. Apart from fully shitted toilets in the distance there were tables, benches, where families could sit and enjoy the view. It was perfectly ideal place for our lunch! So, I grabbed my gas burner, boiled some water, while Sari was dealing with the pasta I was cutting the onions, or grinding the cheese I don’t know, but with a beautiful view and great teamwork we got our lunch ready in no time. 



We were so lucky, only after we were done eating has the first family arrived. And I think we were also lucky to find the toilets after we’ve eaten because I dunno if I wanted to eat after that shitbox.

After lunch we still had a pretty long drive ahead of us, and because the fuel was cheaper in Latvia we wanted to fill our thank before the border crossing. I found a gas station, but it was the stupid self-server type of gas station. After fighting with it for at least 5 minutes I asked for help, there was a fat guy with a Volkswagen SUV next to me, he didn’t speak any English, but he was trying to be extremely helpful, he showed how it worked, and when I didn’t understand him he made his daughter get out of the car hoping her English studies were not useless. It actually did turn out to be useless, the guy just waved angrily at her and laughed. He told us to drive a few minutes in direction to Riga and there will be a normal gas station. He really didn’t look that helpful, but he was one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met. You are probably not reading this, but if you do, I’d like to thank you again!

That’s it for today, the story continues tomorrow!

Take care,

Almos

Location: Čertoka ezers, Šķeltovas pagasts, LV-5653, Latvia

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The actual first day at the University of Warsaw

  Soo, I know I already wrote a blog with this title, but that day (the day before yesterday?) I only had an online class which does not qualify as a normal in-person class! It simply does not. My first class was an online class, at 4pm – which is always fun – after it was my second class that was at the university! What a relief to have a class where I can see other people, and the lecturer doesn’t have terrible audio! What was not that good about it is it was freaking hard! I wasn’t expecting a Polish language class to be easy but wow! It is the next level of randomly placed letters in a word. And the fact that the class starts at 6.30pm does not help us. It seems like usually we are allowed to miss two classes, which is less – by one – than we can in Pécs, but here at the language course we have two classes per week and also two opportunities to miss class which honesty sucks… I do want to learn a Slavic language to be able to communicate in the Balkan, or catch some word when my
Read more

Let's pretend this is day one(?)

  Today we just took the time to really concentrate on ourselves. In the morning we slept late, then I did my little yoga with Bohobeautiful, after that we started cooking lunch and dinner yada-yada-yada. We did participate in an online webinar about the library in Warsaw. To be completely honest I am not big of a fan of libraries. Not like I wouldn’t like to read, but somehow every time I went to the library back at home, I could tell based on people’s look that they knew I was studying sports and therefore I did not belong to a library. Of course, Sara was paying attention she studies at the faculty of Humanities, “her type’s” natural habitat is the library. While we were listening to the presentation, I had the time to think. And I realized a rather strange thing. Yesterday while we were talking with Ola, we were Americans ! I mean me and Sara… Okay, let me explain. So, every time I hear some English-speaking dude walking down the street talking on the phone or with someone, I
Read more

Last Day in Warsaw

Image
  Our last day in Warsaw… When we got up the whole apartment was basically completely empty. Nothing was left, but a few backpacks, the food in the fridge, and the clothes we were about to put on. It was really sad. To start the morning exciting, and cheer ourselves up a bit we started our day in Costa Café or the Nero café — I honestly have no idea — where instead of coffee we drank chai latte. Sari did made me chai latte before, but since we don’t have either a printer nor the balls to print money we used cheep coffee and cheep chai thingy, which meant I was almost drinking something completely different. I absolutely loved the chai latte they gave me, so did Sari. Bummer, I wish I knew about this earlier. After our coffee break we packed everything and headed for the last shopping, we bought the little things that were absolutely needed for our successful trip home: bread, doughnuts, and the missing kinda beers. It was a successful trip. Then we drove home, prepared our meals for th
Read more