CAKSUT 'ün Gezi Notları Travel Notes by CAKSUT

With Motorcycle to NORDKAPP-Norway
Day-7 : 10 July 2016 Sunday
from Riga (Latvia)>>>to Tallinn (Estonia) :-Total distance : 312 km

The breakfast was wonderful at the Hotel Avalon. There was a seniors' group of tourists from Germany. They were manouvering very slowly while picking up breakfast items . After a nice and fine breakfast which lasted a little bit longer, I packed all my stuff and took them down to the park. My motorbike was in the closed private parking place in the basement of the hotel.
I departed around 08:50 from Hotel Avalon in Riga. The weather is grey. There is no rain though. To get rid of the downtown and the streets of the city it took around 20 minutes.
On the outer skirts of Riga on the way to Tallinn it started to rain.
There are sheded bus stations all along the way at every 2-3 kms. One of them was good to stop. I put on my rain gear. It was something 67 km away from the city Riga. It was approx. 09:45 a.m.
The route is fully in green forest even it runs along the coast of Riga Bay. I was presuming that I can see blue water on my left hand side but it was not possible to see the sea. On both sides of the road there are tall trees. Sometimes I saw some signs showing marine connections and beach facilities.
Very seldomly I saw dark braunish water on my left through the trees. The view was not appealing. Riga Bay is part of the Baltic Sea.

Somewhere around 167 kms after my departure I rode into the forest on the left hand side. I wanted to discover the coast. But there was no connection to the beach. So I rode through farmers' houses parallel to the main road. After a while I merged again the main road where I stoped for taking off my rain gear and ate my apple which I hade taken from the breakfast banquet. It was 11:00 o'clock a.m.

The weather was sunny after this point. There was no rain any more. Parnu is the Estonian city far in the Riga Bay. I rode through Parnu heading Tallinn. Approx. 50 kms to Tallinn I saw dark grey and dark bluish sky above Tallinn. I found a Statoil fuelstation on the left hand side (the place name is Marjamaa) and I stopped there in order to watch the movement of the bad weather. It was 12:16. Most probably there was a heavy storm and rain in Tallinn.

I bought a coffee there and ate my sandwich. Meanwhile, a Finnish couple with their motorbike arrived at the point where I was resting. They were coming from Tallinn and heading Parnu. They explained that the weather is really bad and rainy in Tallinn. So I waited some more time there and we talked. Approx. at 13.06 I departed from the Statoil fuelstation fully equipped with my raingear.

The storm had passed and there was no rain but the streets were wet. I came to my hotel on the Pikk Street in the Old City. I had arranged the hotel through booking.com.