Bikepacking in Estonia along the Baltic Sea coastline.
Perfect sunny days, bike loaded with everything I need, friendly Estonians and huge quantities of water – follow along!
Loosely following Eurovelo 10 for 950km loop from Helsinki to Tallinn – Hiiumaa – Saaremaa – Pärnu – across the country to Tallinn and eventually back home west of Helsinki.
Eurovelo 10 route info: https://en.eurovelo.com/ev10/gulf-of-riga-courland-s-coast
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plan is to take a ferry from Helsinki to Estonia and go for some bike packing in SAR [Music] [Music] [Applause] Qui is [Music] traffic trying to find my way out of Talon turns out to be tricky but I’m trying to follow a simple principle of keeping the sea to my right so in practice I should be then heading w along the coast let’s see how this turns out going to be fun and it’s still raining wow that was quite a day I started from my home cycle to the ferry then took the ferry over here talin it was raining in talin when I arrived and uh then I cycle started cycling West made my way out of the city somehow I had hard time navigating my tent is there right behind me and I’m cooking myself some dinner before hitting the bed the view is quite amazing out there so see you tomorrow [Music] [Applause] [Music] first mission for the day find some [Music] [Music] water while eating I tried to research the ferry to hia and uh it should run all day long every other [Music] hour now I’m here at another Harbor waiting for a ferry to hear and looks like the next one will be leaving at 11:00 in the evening while waiting I’m planning to wash my myself and uh then cook some much needed dinner really hungry so see you on the [Music] ferry he youa arrived to hiar and it’s dark in here [Music] cycled a total of 75 km first to the ferry and then on the other side another 35k to this campsite I arrived here sometime around 2:30 a.m. it was quite dark at the time there were millions of mosquitoes at night and as soon as the tent was set up I completely collapsed and slept until this morning well slept until 300 p.m. today and now it’s afternoon already I think it’s Sunday I’m just finishing my packing up and planning to start cycling again greetings from hia slept really long today well turned out the last Ferry for today from hia to SAR has already left so I’m stuck on hear side for another [Music] night early morning today I need to go and catch the fair East yesterday [Music] [Music] I don’t really speak Estonian but to me it looks like this shop might be close today [Music] all right now the ferry from hia TOA should be a 20-minute ride and the first mission on the other side is again finding some more water it’s really really hot out here so running out quite quickly even though I’m carrying 4 L of my bike first impressions of s are really quiet and really hot [Music] shopping break bought myself some yogurt salty crackers and most importantly a lot of [Music] water empty this is as West As It Gets end of sama 400 km in so going to be at least another 400 back home but I think there’s going to be some detours along the way the wind is always from the front [Music] [Applause] it’s good to be moving again extremely hot [Music] [Music] oh oh oh oh oh it’s a miracle with a shower good dinner and a night sleep in a bed dust to a tired cyclist it’s my day six averaged like 100 km a day this far back in Estonia Mainland and uh I just saw a sign saying that it’s 95 kilom to parano current plan is to find a place to camp out somewhere between here and panu so I have 95 km to look for a good place to Camp it’s a shop and that means [Music] water 3 L of water some musy bars and a yogurt it looks like I found my campsite for tonight there’s a nice even spot for the tent and then there’s a solid tree to which I can lock the bike for the night and uh best of all the sea is right there so I can see it straight from my [Music] tent on my way to Baro I think there’s like uh 40 km or so to go and uh the road turned a bit slow again but it’s beautiful out here so paru here we [Music] come the first drops of train since I left talin a week ago really welcome Chains It’s still really warm but uh this rain cools me down quite nicely so 120 km to go to talin hope it doesn’t rain all the way though exactly 100 km to tal got to live you can don’t look back don’t forget you got to let now while you can light Tailwind behind me don’t look back don’t forget you got to let you can don’t you wait don’t you wait until the morning light the Morning Light far away far away until you’re side you’re out side less than 10 kilometers from home and just passed 200 kilm of riding for today