Re: Estonian Question


Maris wrote:
> 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

Don't know is UK a part of European Union or not, but the very same
compulsory insurance what covers you at home will do in all European
Union. No more "green cards" for europeans, and you must show nothing
on borders - they can just look from computer is car with particular
reg. no. covered or not.

Best,
Vello
>
>
>
> >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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