Klaip\u0117da is becoming a bit of a dead end for me. I could probably go back to Kaunas or Vilnius and catch a bus to Riga from there that also takes my bike, but backtracking doesn’t feel right. I found out that there is a weekly train to Riga from Liepaja in Latvia, just 100km north of Klaip\u0117da. This incidentally goes tomorrow evening! But the bus to Liepaja doesn’t run today, and tomorrow it goes too late to reach the train. So that leaves me with one option: cycling. Normally I wouldn’t hesitate, but with a heavy backpack that’s no fun. So what I’ll do is get as far as possible towards Liepaja by public transport, which seems to be as far as Skoudas, more or less directly at the Latvian border. From there it’s still ~50km, but I guess I have no choice. Brrrr, it will be cold.<\/p>\n
Due to bad planning on my part I didn’t leave Klaip\u0117da today. Too bad, I would have liked to have that extra day in Liep\u0101ja.<\/p>\n
So this is an ‘office day’ today, overlooking the main bus terminal from my desk.<\/p>\n