Re: Estonian Question

On 22 Aug 2005 12:08:09 -0700, "Dmitry" <klapkalnciems@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>Flight tickets to Riga are now under £100, to cross the channel is at
>least £80 + fuel cost and the rest of it. I would still do it if I
>had plenty of time, I would have liked to spend even more time stopping
>in Germany, Poland and Lithuania.
>
Not so. You can get to Riga via Ryanair for about £50 return at the
cheapest. Crossing the channel using Speedferry is also cheap at £19
oneway for a car with five passengers.
Congrats on the 205 by the way. I did the trip in my diesel 205 back
in 1993 and it survived 8 months in Latvia, not insured at any point!
Someone did steal my windscreen at one point and my windscreen wipers
(which were totally worn out!).
Insurance is now a factor to take into account. My insurance company
in the UK would not provide cover of any sort for the Baltic States.
In the end I bought some green card cover on the Latvian border for
about £35 for 4 weeks (having driven through Lithuania without any
cover!).

Maris



>However, the purpose of buying the car was for my parents to keep and
>use it and also for myself and my children to use it when we visit. My
>old folks had an old half-working Moskvich, when I came for New Year
>2005 it wasn't even working. Kids were driving it for years and said
>that it is now really embarrassing to drive things like this in Latvia.
>
>
>This Peugeot 205 they bought in Lithuania is 14 years old, they paid
>?800 for it and spent 200 Ls- to get it through the test and it works
>OK so far. The same type of vehicle could be easily bought here for
>£100.
>
>I could have given them my car, but it's illegal to drive
>right-hand-drive cars in Latvia. I don't know why.

.

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