More Lithuanians saddling their bikes in search of cheaper transport
20.05.12
KLAIPEDA - The long awaited spring arrived this week, bringing mid-July temperatures, driving all bicycle fans out from the indoors. Some two-wheeler lovers from as far as Latvia, Kaliningrad and Poland hurried to get onto ferries bound for the 52-kilometer bike lanes on the Curonian Spit, Lithuania’s Mecca of cycle-leisure lovers.
“We have been to Lithuania before, but never made it to the bike lanes along the Baltic Sea coast on the Curonian Spit, though we’ve heard a lot of excellent feedback from other Polish cycling fans who went for bike rides there. Having taken advantage of a couple of extra days off, and the biking opportunity on the Spit, we set out for Klaipeda, where we stayed with our Lithuanian friends,” Rafal Dlugolecki told The Baltic Times.
Along with his other two friends, he rented bikes for last Sunday from Du ratai-BaltiCCycle, a bike rental service at the Klaipeda Pier. “I left very content with the service and the rental price. And the lanes, so picturesque, clean, crowd-less and pine-and-spring-greenery-smell-saturated, along the Baltic Sea, were beyond our expectations. The Polish bike lanes on the Polish Baltic coast are a lot shorter and much less impressive,” the 36-year-old Pole said.
Source: Baltic Times