Hey, Sverige! After arriving at Trelleborg ferry terminal, I used the long summer day to start my adventure straight away. Through endless cornfields that are so typical for the Skåne province, we went to a small nature campsite that I picked out on Komoot beforehand. Shortly before the finish line there… read more

There is probably no better way to get used to a new life as a cyclist than to sit on your bike from morning to night. This happened on the second day of my tour! Including a mandatory coffee break on an idyllic lake.

Whether you really have to shower and wash clothes after three days on the bike is an open question. In any case, I couldn't resist looking at the map when I discovered the small campsite on the big lake. And the 60 kilometers to get there sounded pretty tempting after the longer stage the day before ...

When the north-west wind blows and you drive north-west, there is no joy 🙈. But somehow it ended up being 124 (pretty hard-earned) kilometers. And at least there was a wonderful campsite at the end of the day - sheltered from the wind and with the evening sun 🙏.

The bad days have something good: you really appreciate the better (and less windy) days! And this one was such a. Including a few really nice trails and a lot of berry picking along the way. 🐻

I saw relatively little of it, however, because it was hidden most of the time or I drove too far inland 🙈. But there were plenty of other beautiful lakes. And a somewhat less beautiful, semi-voluntary detour on the Pilgrimsleden, on which my bike would rather be pushed or even carried for a few kilometers… read more

After a week and almost 800 kilometers (including my warm-up from Hamburg to Travemünde) on my bike, I headed for Karlstad at the northern end of the Vänern for an undoubtedly well-deserved day off. And with this view, the many ups and downs that day were only half as wild. Put your legs up and fill up reserves in 3, 2, 1 ...!

After a full day off in Karlstad, which I spent doing things like washing clothes, answering e-mails, running errands, eating and sleeping, I spontaneously spent another night in the accommodation and half the Sunday with a leisurely bike & hike excursion on the island of Hammarö south of Karlstadt… read more

A 90 kilometer long bike path. Finest asphalt. Sunshine. Tail wind (!!!). It could all have been so perfect. And then ... the second record of the trip 😲! I don't think that's okay.



In the evening I accidentally discovered a small, cozy campsite right by a lake and checked in immediately. All in all… read more

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It's always wonderful to slip into your soaked shoes from the day before in the morning 🙈. The rest stayed dry today, apart from a few showers (and the shoes are now again). I am currently planning the route for the next few days on Komoot: It’s towards Höga Kusten 🤩🤩🤩 - an area that I have wanted… read more

Okay, a little comment: One of those days when you end up just pitching your tent somewhere on the roadside to finally be dry. I don't really have that much against rain, but once you're really soaked, at some point it's just REALLY difficult to stay warm on the bike.



Especially when the temperatures… read more

And the sky is shining again in the colors of the Swedish flag 🤩! Life (on the bike and in general) can be so good when you are warm and dry 😁. I enjoyed every second of that day. And I've also seen a little bit of sea ...

Today I mostly followed the Cykelspåret, a cycle route that runs along the east coast of Sweden. I only saw the sea a few times that day; too often it was hidden behind hills and rows of trees. And yet everything feels a little different by the sea. Must be in the air with the light breeze of salt… read more

The meters in altitude are increasing, the ascents are longer, the Höga Kusten (“high coast”) lives up to its name!



❗️During the last ice age, the land here was pushed down by the weight of the ice. After the melt it rose again a total of 285 meters - and it still does! Every year the Höga Kusten grows… read more

After spending a full day off yesterday with eating, sleeping, washing clothes and similar exciting things, this morning I laced my shoes a bit tighter than usual and went hiking in the Skuleskogen National Park 🌲🥾🌊.



Stroll through forests, climb mountains, sit on beaches ... surrounded by moss-covered… read more

Always crazy what makes a little break. With my legs as fresh as on the first day, I hardly noticed the kilometer and altitude difference on that day and if I hadn't set off at noon (you have to have breakfast in peace and quiet 🤪), SOMETHING would have been possible 😅.



In the evening, numerous mosquitoes… read more

One last look at the Baltic Sea before my way leads me back inland. I haven't really seen the sea from my bike in the last few days anyway (somehow there were always these 🌲🌲🌲 in between), but it was still a bit difficult to say goodbye. As always when you leave the sea 👋.

The Vindelälven is one of the few completely unregulated large rivers in Sweden, with rapids, salmon migration and everything that belongs to a wild river 🙏. I followed his run today for a good 80 kilometers on the Vindelälvleden cycle route and here and there I felt a bit of a Yukon feeling 🤠.

So now I'm where you hardly ever come across cars even on well-paved, relatively large roads. That was 70 kilometers full of nothing today. A few houses here and there, nothing else ... I think that's pretty good per se 🤠.



But now I urgently need to change my mind and my eating habits. So far, both have… read more