Weather: 17
°C (63 F), cloudy, rain Distance: 86
km (54 miles) Time: 4:16 h
(8:10 - 13:30) Av. speed:
20.1 kph (12.6 mph) Accomodation:
$ 10 (camping)
549 km (343 miles)
I started out quite fast, since I wanted
to reach Karlskrona before the rain did. Yesterday's weather
map had pictured the situation as it would be at 2 pm,
so I didn't know exactly when the rain would begin.
Stressed as I was by this, I took a short cut through
the deep forests of Småland. It was a long and stuffy
road of the type that flies seem to like. Every time I
stopped for a banana and/or some hot chocolate, the flies
gathered around me. Since I didn't appreciate their company,
the only thing I ate on this stretch was some bananas
while still biking.
The rain was punctual – at 2 pm sharp it started
to fall. But I had biked at a fast pace and already raised
the tent at a camping in Karlskrona by then. I don't know
if that was a good thing to do, because now my cheap tent,
that lacks an inner tent, will be all humid or maybe even
wet by the time I go to sleep. I did call several hostels
during the day, but they were all full.
However, I have also called the ferry company TT Line
and managed to book a ticket from Trelleborg to Rostock
for Wednesday the 10th of July. I wanted to go a day earlier,
but there was no place until Wednesday. So now I have
sent an sms to my German friend Andreas in Berlin, that
I will arrive on Friday.
I was right in suspecting the worst from that bad taste
in my mouth yesterday. I have caught a cold, or something
like that, and I think I have a fever. Today's pretty
desperate biking (to arrive before the rain) probably
didn't make it better.
After walking around in the beautiful Karlskrona, a city
more or less built on 30 islands, I have now went to bed,
despite it's not more than 8.30 pm.
At least the weather forecast is promising. It seems the
last rain has fallen, or at least does so while I'm falling
asleep. The atmosphere in the tv room was OK during the
forecast today, since I was alone there...
The nights are so cold. I often wake up in the early mornings
from freezing. I should have bought a tent with an inner
tent.
I like these
kind of deserted and small, yet asphalted roads.
The big square
of Karlskrona. Not much of a good mood boost.
Fields after
fields with potatos surrounded me outside Kalmar.
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