Today has been my laziest of many lazy days on this trip. In part due to my overindulgence last night and the rest due to some inclement weather. Last night we waited in anticipation for the climax of Latvia’s longest…

After I wrote my post yesterday things began to improve at Camping Apalkalns in a rather unexpected way. At about 7pm four Latvian cars arrived on site, one Mercedes crossing the campsite grass at about 50 Mph! They pitched five…

Today was not a good driving day. We had a mere 130 miles to cover and SatNav said we should arrive by 1.30pm. The fact that we covered 155 miles and didn’t arrive until 4.30 pm doesn’t tell the whole…

Team Basil’s day started badly, got worse, but ended on one of the highlights of the trip. We had an appointment to keep. Basil was due for his service at 9am and the dealer was a 30 minute drive. Basil…