sweden country number 45 the adventure keeps on going
there you go i'm the first out
these guys didn't say hello he didn't say goodbye didn't engage one second in a fecking chat
nice guys that's the way you travel the world
this is the entrance to the park
in Helsingborg and i think there is a castle there, there is sort of a pedestrian area
cars are not allowed there, i think i'll go back to the port and find a quiet spot i have to
kill sometimes before my host gets home
i left Helsingborg this morning and not too early because i received the new wheels from bike cafe remember the wtb wtb sent me these replacement rims
because the other ones were cracked they are kom tough i-45 and then Bikecafe build the new wheels
with very strong spokes and the rims are, the hubs are sun ringle src
i'm going much faster i think i'm 20 faster because the old hubs slowed me down
i'm really happy about the the new wheels i hope they last longer than the than the old rims
but good customer service wtb when they cracked they send me send me new ones
but yeah i'm ready to hit the road the weather is good it should be good for the next few days hopefully
and uh yeah road to cape north Nordkapp
so even in sweden for the most part i will do paved roads
because i want to continue as fast as possible it's a pity because uh these places are really
nice i'm sure there are wonderful trails it's late into the season and i want to make the most out of
this good weather that there should be for the next few days and try to get to maybe halfway through between
here and Nordkapp without too much rain i left the helsingborg that it was almost 12
so now it's 2 30 and i did 41 kilometers
even though i i lack the whole morning
i'm still trying to do about 100 kilometers today there's a warm shower host
at about between 70 and 80 kilometers i sent him a message this morning
i kind of hope he doesn't reply so that i i do another hour or two
i want to get to 100 kilometers
then if i do 100 kilometers then tomorrow i have about
140 kilometers i think to get to a fairly big town and there i think uh
there is one or two warm shower host so yeah could be an option
pushing today and camp somewhere and then tomorrow night try to find a a host and maybe i have the
chance to get a shower rest a few hours hook up with uh some wi-fi for an hour post a few pictures
answer messages it's a full-time job guys but yeah let's keep on going
I stopped to a house here refilled my water bottle so i'm good for the night if i camp somewhere yeah the woman said
do you drink beer so she gave me this ericsberg
so i did a hundred and almost 105 kilometers
i think i will go another half an hour and do another 10 kilometers
so i'll have an easier day tomorrow tomorrow i get to a fairly big town hopefully i find a host there
just to crash for the night and have a shower
tonight it's gonna be humid there's loads of water behind these trees
and this valley is kind of humid here so i will try to camp maybe on the right hand side
if there is like a hill a little bit higher and exposed to east so that i can catch the sun early
in the morning and it will dry the tent quickly hopefully it's sunny tomorrow morning
because it will get wet yeah it will get wet tonight
no rain but lots of humidity
all right let's push the last the last hour
good morning i finished drying my tent i've been waiting it's a quarter past nine
so it's a bit late but i was waiting a bit the sun to dry the tent i dried the fly sheet i dried
the tent and i dried my quilt because the last night was very humid everything was very wet
and so i took an hour this morning an hour and a bit to dry to dry everything so it saves me time
during lunch lunch hours to get everything out and dry stuff around that time. last night was chilly
it was three degrees so it was the first night that uh that it was a bit colder in this trip
so now i'm heading north it's it's gonna get colder so i think i will switch my liner
I have the thermo reactor from sea to summit instead of the silk one i will it will be a bit more cozy
and also i didn't tuck the quilt because i always used it so far as a blanket
and i think last night it would have been nice to to tuck it in because this morning i woke up and
i was a little not cold but it would have been nice to be a bit more cozy so
um the next night i will just put the anchors and i didn't want
to do it in the middle of the night so yeah but tonight i should get to jokongping
or something like that and i have a host there so that's why i also spending a bit of more time
this morning to dry everything because i knew that i will have to keep going to 145
kilometers today and because i'll be at my host tonight i'm not gonna spread out the
tent and so it's better everything is dry now let me pack the last little things and let's go
what a beautiful porcini mushroom but here i think nobody pick them because there are tones on the
side of the road they are a few days old probably a week must be when it rained the last time
and i have a i have a bag in uh let's see if there is something else here
i picked already a bag, tonight my host i hope he will be able to recognize that
those are good mushrooms and we will make a risotto with porcini mushrooms
i have a bag full of porcini mushrooms that i picked in the last 10 minutes
look at this it's gonna be like over a kilo i think
over a kilo of goodness
i think people in sweden they don't know
they don't know what they're sitting on
okay last stop i'm gonna take a picture as well
i broke it
they're a bit dry but jeez what a beauty let's see if there is another one around here
oh what do we have here what do we have here look at this thing
look at this this is incredible let me take a picture of this i'm gonna clean it a bit
the cleaning what you picked it's good because uh basically the the spores the seeds
of the mushroom will stay here
disaster the bike almost fell
i think i have a kilo and a half at least
of good good porcini mushrooms
and there's look
but now i need to get going i need to do another
60 kilometers and it's almost four o'clock it's time to do some progress now
i mean jonkoping it was supposed to be my destination for today but my host
told me that he's a bit busy and he switched with another couchsurfing host friend of his
that lives 15 kilometers further so today i'm gonna do almost 160 kilometers
what time is it it's it's
half past seven so in 10 minutes there is a sunset i still have to
pedal a little bit but it could be good because tomorrow it could do like a very big day
and i'm 10 15 kilometers closer
of
my destination for tomorrow there's a fairly big town 200 kilometers from here
with many warm shower hosts i will try to arrange a host so that i can do a big day and kind
of a double day and that will get me closer to Nordkapp
yesterday in the afternoon it got
quite chilly late afternoon
and last night was quite cold so tonight the temperature will be sub freezing
tomorrow as well and then today after tomorrow it should go up but if all goes well tomorrow
should be 200 kilometers north so i'm curious to check out the weather over there
beautiful sunset
and i'm cycling in the dark almost beautiful beautiful