Less than fifty.

even it was hard to say goodbye to beds with awesome pillows as late as around noon, it was even harder to imagine to give up our dream of reaching Tartu on foot for as little as two beds with awesome pillows. So we left, havig put kur room key in the post box as instructed.

Our first stop was Statoil Valga to buy Estonian prepaid mobile phone card, mainly for two purposes - to check the remaining distance and to post some notice online about us still moving. We succeeded in buying. The card did not succeed on connecting. Fortunately, Estonian road signs do the job of distance checking in superb quality, but they are obviously not familiar with using internet, so our two last days have been what we actually expexted all twelve of them to be - an offline journey.

The  again, for most of the time, we could pretty much summarize everything in two words: we walked. It is now mostly about seeing the number of remaining kilometres to decrease and nothing much else is able to attract our attention. Well, allmost.

There were some moments though. First was a lady who runs a shop in a little village Õru. Unlike Valka shops, this was open until 22.00 and gave us what we needed - food and water refill. Lauma was the one going for the water refill and ended up in lady's personal kitchen as lady thought it will be more comfortable for the purpose. She was a Belorussian herself, but when Lauma, hearing her speaking Russian on phone, tried to speak Russian to her, the lady very firmly kept to Estonian. Afterall, this has been her home for forty years.

Another highlight was the truckdriver who wanted to save us from the rain by taking to Tartu. We are proffessionals in saying no to such requests. But this was our first truck who stopped, not just beeped. Regarding beeping, there are moments when we could call the road a Beeping symphony. It might be because as true Latvians we walk with flags. At some point we probably should take photo of the flags. They are cute. Thanks goes to Lauma's friend.

The last (for today) and one of the best overall highlights was made by Ilze's dear friend and academic buddy Mari-Liisa and her team, who. Ot only offered to bring pizza to wherever we are, but actually did it. Real food! Lots of it! And we could keep the leftovers! That is our new definition of friendship at least for today.

They also informed us that our target Rõngu is five kilometres away. That one we reached easily, but wet because for the first time during today we failed at rain-roof management and decided to leave our last roof seven or ten minutes before the worst rain of the day came. Anyway, we are here, catching internet from an open WiFi spot, a bit freezing because of wanting to finish this blog entry, but in all senses very happy.


All that is left to do, is getting through Rõngu, find a place for tent, sleep, then sleep some more and then finish as much as we can of remaining less than forty kilometres. Yes, less than 40km and less than two days. And we still talk to each other and we still are alive.