Weather: 16
°C (61 F), cloudy Distance: 115
km (72 miles) Time: 6:29 h
(8:20 - 18:00) Av. speed:
17.7 kph (11.1 mph) Accomodation:
$ 10 (camping)
664 km (415 miles)
Finally no more rain! Even though the tent got quite
a heavy shower of it tonight. Despite it didn't rain
in, I can't stop thinking about how nice it would have
been with a better tent.
I biked slowlier today, on a very beautiful road that
stretched from the big E22 to the little village of
Johannishus. You could tell that this is a nature reserve.
Then I passed Ronneby's port and had coffee and sandwiches
on the cemetary of Saxemara church. And then again in
Åryd.
In Karlshamn, named after our Swedish king Karl X, I
took a longer break to eat lunch: A fish burger with
french fries at a quite boring street vendour.
***
Now I'm sitting on a bench on the sandy beach of the
camping in Sölvesborg. It's 9:30 pm and I look
out over the light sea and the as light heaven. It's
quite warm and if I close my eyes, the border between
sea and heaven disappears. This can only mean one thing:
I'm on vacation!
But I'm also ill, feverish, and that makes me weak,
both physically and mentally. But aware of that as I
am, I try not to put myself into any hard situations.
Whatever those would be, I don't know. I guess I'm just
weak.
Ask and Embla,
the first two people of the world according to Nordic
pagans, as statues in Sölvesborg.
A miniature
Stonehenge that I passed at Ysane.
Another statue
or sculpture, this time of Swedish author Vilhelm
Moberg's characters Kristina and Karl-Oskar. They,
like thousands of other Swedes, emigrated to America
during the 19th century, and it was from Karlshamn
– where I found the statue – that most
of the ships left.
9:30 pm,
a meditative view of the Baltic sea as seen from
the camping in Sölvesborg.
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