Andy: 24 July
Today we have reached a milestone. We are one third of the way through our distance for the trip, having passed the 2000km mark. We managed a respectable 102km today, the final 5 of which were the toughest so far. Today Sweden bit back, ensuring that all the views we had enjoyed would not come without a price...hard cycling (!). We had a nice excursion in Goteburg, but found some of the sights to be slightly anti-climactic, especially the skyscraper that was supposed to be fashioned on a lipstick, which already seemed to be trying to make some pretentious and unnecessary statement, but instead looked like some kind of mishapen dustbin with a red helmet.
We stopped for two beers each and some fries. I was left intoxicated y both my inability to process alcohol and yet another Swedish beauty...but regrettably the waitress in question was not similarly bowled over by my boysih good looks and roguish charms! Instead of eloping with her, Jonny and I zigzagged out of Goteburg in the sunshine and continued to head north.
Two small grumbles about Swedish roads...they seem to think that signposting is more a decoration to be put sporadically at points that might be aesthetically pleasing rather than at junctions or crossings where they might serve a genuine function, and second, the Swedes place bike paths alongside roads for perhaps 300 meters at a time, which then halt abruptly with no easy way to get ack onto the road... ...still its not a country I would particularly mind getting lost in.
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