Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Baltic Snapshot 1

One very early morning in July.
Mr Fox, A Fox (5), J Fox (6) and I stuff ourselves into the car and take a ferry to Estonia. We notice soon that one very important paper is missing.
[Note to self: place a sweet and softly toned domestic conversation number 1 here]

An officer in the harbour: Where are you going?
T Fox: To Latvia.
An officer in the harbour: Oh. I don't know... they might never ask the paper, but if they do, they will probably stop you and you have to leave your car there. You have two options now: go or don't.
T Fox: [after a very long second]We'll go then.

Three hours later we are in Estonia.
We drive through the country.
We stop twice.
Eight hours later we arrive to Riga without a proper street map. Do you know how many one way only- signs there are in that town?
[Note to self: place a sweet and softly toned domestic conversation number 19 here]

I take only three photos during the day. Imagine that.


Odd old things from an unknown place.

1 comment:

Dave said...

Lovely. Family holidays are such fun, aren't they?