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May 25, 2016, 9:00am · 🌧 7 °C Altitude: 45 m
SwedenGävleborgHudiksvalls KommunDelsbo61°48’6” N 16°33’30” E
Day 13 - Garden to Guesthouse
May 25, 2016 in Sweden ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
After a good night's sleep in Mike and Sara's garden (in spite of the heavy overnight rain) they helped get us going with a coffee in their warm, dry kitchen before heading to work. We were treated to the sight of a woodpecker picking nuts from their bird feeder while we took in the caffeine.
After that, we stuck around for a bit to wait for the rain to settle, then broke camp and set off in full waterproof gear, expecting the rain to hit us again on the ride.
Pretty soon afterwards, I was stripping all those layers off, as it is now a lot warmer than it was in the North (double figures, even!). It didn't seem to matter anyway, as the day remained cloudy but mostly dry.
Based on Mike's good advice, we took a slightly longer route that guaranteed sealed roads while also avoiding a return to the E4. It was hilly, but proved a nice ride between small towns with shops and services. Along the way we stopped to watch (and hear) a pair of migrating cranes as the milled around a front garden before flying off into the distance.
Eventually we came out onto the 84, which was our road to Bergso. Unfortunately it was a lot more similar to the E4 than we had hoped and included multiple steep climbs. So the last part of our ride was back alongside lorries and fast-moving cars, cycling nose to tail for safety. Still, we were rolling into Bergso before too long.
Bergso is a town with plenty of campsites, and with a thunderstorm predicted overnight, we had planned to hire a cabin for shelter and a chance to hand-wash clothes. Unfortunately, unlike all our previous stops, none of the campsites in Bergso are open until June. So, faced with the possibility of wild camping and waking up wet with no dry/clean clothes, we opted to stay in a B&B for the night. So it's an evening of clothes washing, hot showers and comfort before a proper breakfast; all to set us up for more wet weather cycling tomorrow.Read more
Rhys Peters http://youtu.be/9yMsvD8iyJg Enjoy that BnB stay. Camping can be risky.....
Dad Peters Very kind of your big brother to share that video!! Well it is certainly an eventful trip, so nice of the British couple to let you camp in their garden! Hope you have quieter roads to cycle today, Simon looked at home in the B&B, safe cycling both, love mum and dad xxx
Traveler Thank you! It was very nice of them, and we felt very lucky to have met them by chance. The trip has been made by nice people so far. But the weather has been less kind! X x
Traveler I can't load that video, unfortunately. Rhys - can you WhatsApp it to me?