Author Archives: Alistair Todd

Day 51 West of Berlin, originally uploaded by Big Al!.

Best view I’ve had all day is the one from an anonymous motel room outside Berlin, because I’m dry in here and not peering through a rain soaked visor, after spending the day nearly drowning in torrential rain and seeing nothing but the backside of Polish HGVs. Actually that’s not true, there was also one brothel, or "24 Hour Night Club", about every ten miles, a 47 mile traffic jam, 632 potentially fatal near-misses due to insane Polish driving, and another thirty or so that were due to a couple having sex on a motorway bridge.

Day 50 Somewhere in Poland, originally uploaded by Big Al!.

Realising that Riga can’t be beaten, I decide to finish on a high note, load up the bike and make for home. A quick blast through Latvia, Lithuania, and a sizable chunk of Poland, leaves me with two or three more days riding before I will be home and can start planning my next trip to Riga. So until the next one begins, my travels are over.

Day 48 Riga, originally uploaded by Big Al!.

My two Turkish friends.

Day 48 Riga, originally uploaded by Big Al!.

With Brisa, from Mexico.