After Egypt we returned to Germany and began preparation for a roadtrip that would take us to Tallinn and back. Max’s Dad kindly gave us his car for 3 weeks and, after borrowing a tent and a blow up matress, we were off. Starting with a 9 hour drive to Warsaw. We wanted to make our trip as economical as possible so we used blablacar.com to find people to share the petrol costs with and took a Polish woman with us. We also used couchsurfing to find accommodation and had a wonderful host in Warsaw who gave us his fold out couch for 2 nights free of charge. He also showed us around the city and told us lots of interesting information about Poland’s history. 
After meeting our Spanish passengers we began our journey on towards Lithuania…without checking the route that satnav proposed. After several hours we became aware that we were heading very close to Belarus and in fact the satnav’s route wanted to take us right through it. We got as far as the line for the border crossing before veering off and taking a detour through a beautiful part of Polish countryside, arriving in Vilnius a little later that excpected. We spent a day in Vilnius before heading out to the coast to meet our couch surfing hosts and a fellow couch surfing couple on a big round the world adventure. We all hit it off and spent a great few days exploring the area, eating burgers and enjoying a local beer festival.
We took our fellow couchsurfers with us for part of the next journey and dropped them off before heading to a couch surfing host in the middle of a forrest area in Latvia. We picked fresh berries in the morning and enjoyed some nature before continuing to Riga where our host had put us in touch with his friend who we could stay with. We really loved wandering the streets of Riga and discovering the many second hand clothing shops! We managed to meet up with friends of mine from the Czech Republic who were also on a road trip. After a couple of nights we headed North to the Gulf of Riga to camp by the beach for a couple of days.
After a final few hours driving we reached out Northernmost destination, a couch surfing place 30mins outside of Tallinn in a lovely wooden house (complete with sauna) with a young Estonian couple. Tallinn was beautiful and we managed to see a lot of the city in a day of walking guided by recommendations from our hosts. After an evening of sweating in the sauna and beating each other with branches as per tradition, we headed south again. This time we took advantage of the free camping laws in the Baltics and camped in some lovely spots in Estonia and Latvia along the way.
Back in Lithuania we decided to pass through Kaunas to see a different city. We stayed with another brilliant couch surfing host and enjoyed wandering the old town. We then opted for the smaller country roads through Poland and ended up spending two nights in the car out of laziness as we couldn’t be bothered to put up the tent! We also had a very near fuel outage whilst searching desperately for a petrol station in the tiny towns we passed through. With the weather not looking too flash we gave up our ideas of a few days at the beach and instead headed back to Germany to stay in Berlin for a weekend. Finally, it was time to head back to Frankfurt for a wedding and a quick refuel before our flights to Edinburgh to catch up with friends and experience the famous Fringe Festival.
Our route through the Baltics
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