Sunday, March 29, 2009

The Road to Tallinn

The rain was beating down as the morning bus pulled out of Riga. The only spots of colour in the suburbs were shopping centre billboards, petering out to a one-lane road driven straight through the middle of an endless pine forest. Traffic was light and the scenery nondescript: mud and snow, a giant yellow chair in the middle of a field, two-carriage trains by the side of the road. I woke up at Parnu Bus Station, on the other side of the Estonian border. My neck was stiff and the road was covered with icy slush. There were still two hours to go.

2 comments:

Garry Nixon said...

Will you ever get the story of that giant yellow chair?

Michael said...

I'm wondering if Rigas Balsams has hallucinatory properties.
Mind you, I did once see a giant apple by the side of the Ottawa - Toronto road...