Usually on these trips I take the train between the
different locations that I visit. For
this trip this wasn’t a practical option – apparently you can get between Riga
and Tallinn by train but it takes an age and requires you to change somewhere
half way through. Instead I went by
coach, which is something I would usually shy away from as they can be quite
confined and lacking in leg room.
However, the coach I went on this time – Lux Express – was a
revelation. I had paid a bit extra for a
“lounge” seat, but even the standard seats looked like they had plenty of leg
room. The bus had free tea and coffee
facilities (and a loo) and most impressively seat-back TVs that operated just
like on a long-distance flight with the ability to watch films. Whilst my system was slightly fragile (It had
a habit of stopping the film every now and again) it did enable me to see two
films I hadn’t seen otherwise and while away the time travelling. Whilst the journey wasn’t quick, neither are
American trains and I still go on them, and I expect part of the reason was
that the roads weren’t dual carriageways for most of the journey (indeed the
journey out of Riga went past almost every tourist attraction I had visited!)
You go past the border controls which used to exist without
stopping, but oddly we were stopped for a passport check a few km further down
the road!
Overall, far better than I expected – it even arrived early –
to be recommended.
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