Well here we are in the capital of Sweden.We had our first small blip with the sat nav as we arrived at the outskirts of the city; whenever the maps were uploaded they didn't take into account the fact that one of the main motorways cut a swathe across the road we needed to be on! So it took a bit of old fashioned walking and then even resorting to asking for directions before we found the hotel. Similarly the hotel description makes no mention of the close prox...

Still in Jonkoping, it's been another beautiful day- I know it's gorgeous at home as well, so I don't feel bad about saying that!I'm so glad that today was our rest day! We collected our rental bikes. Mine was built for some long legged Swedish lady not a short dumpy middle aged British woman, I had to keep jumping off when I needed to stop and to get going was just as hilarious to watch!! Still I survived the 6 hours on it with no injuries sustained. We cycled a...

Another beautiful day for travelling, although the further north we travelled the more clouds came but it was still very warm. As we rode it was noticeable that whenever we came within sight of any water be that sea or Ffjord the temp dropped considerably. As we rode north after about an hour the landscape we were travelling through changed from the agriculture and dairy farms we had been seeing since disembarking in Rotterdam to pine forests which we followed t...

Yesterday we had a good riding day to Malmo. On our way we crossed over the sea via 2 long bridges; the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden was 10 miles long which included a tunnel but the bridge was a relatively low one, so I coped very well! We found the hotel which turned out to be on the heart of the old town but we didn't discover that information until we had been out walking for 4 hours and stumbled our way back to the hotel! We had arrived too early t...

Left Bremen bright and early after a fantastic night's sleep; we both felt much more relaxed and refreshed. The journey through to Kolding went really smoothly. When we stopped late morning at a motorway service we saw the couple off the ferry who had brought their dog with them. We stopped to say hello and listened to a catalogue of disasters which had befallen them. Their sat nav didn't work properly from the moment they got off the boat and they ended up ridin...