I travelled the opposite route from Russia through Estonia Latvia, Lithuania, Poland Germany Holland I found the roads in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania very good - Lithuania the policing was very hot, told by two greek lad there experience with the police was bad the fines huge and corruption obvious, There were some very long gravel sections on diversion where the roads were being repaired. However northern poland was quite bad on the roads, it was raining the road surface was poor to very poor in some places and the 'Koleyni' were at time a nightmare, in many places they were just a ripple in the road in other places they were quite deep and full of water - they can be ridden around but sometimes I was forced to cross them - this was very slippy and easy to get locked into the ridge and on one occasion forced off the road onto the gravel edges by drivers coming the opposite way doing mad overtakes with no regard at all for the conditions or the fact they were head on to me coming from the opposite direction. On more than one occasion I had two vehicles overtaking another vehicle giving three vehicles across the road towards me - in the rain - I think there are many poles who drive maybe drunk or with the red mist and bikes seem pretty low on their agenda - It got worse towards night on the outskirts of Gdansk - got to say some of the least pleasant driving I have seen in western Europe and far worse than anything I have seen in North Africa or Russia - sorry Poland but my experience was poor. I found the Polish people really very nice - just put them behind a wheel and it all goes to pieces !