Day 32: Lake Boren and Gota-Kanal

This morning I used the morning sun to dry my things and did set off relatively late. The new glue also had to dry, but it didn't hold at all. But my paddling gear was dry again and I was able to store my warm and dry spare gear again. When grey clouds rolled in, I set off paddling - across the small lake Boren - to Borensberg, where a lock allows me to continue my journey through the canal. (As happened in Motala, we have to go back down from the high Vättern to sea level, which in turn requires many locks.)
The canal was again laid out like a paddling alley, where I was the only user and only occasionally did other people appear on the right or left of the towpath. After the lock it started to rain heavily and towards the end (my destination for the day was to be Ljungsbro) the sun came out again.
The aqueduct is interesting on this route: the canal runs over a road.
After today's 29km I'm spending the night in the "Vandrehem Ljungsbro", indoors for once. This way I can avoid the frosty night, dry everything, fix the boat (this morning's temporary solution) and hopefully get an early start tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll go around the Berg locks and across Lake Roxen to Norsholm, where the next section of the "Göta-Kanal" awaits me...Read more