Day 3. The day of Highs and Lows.

Start point… Nyborg, Denmark, passing Copenhagen,Malmo,Kungsbacka (Gottskar) and Gothernburg.

Finishing point…. Dingle, about an hour North of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Distance. 338 Miles.

Total. 1069 Miles.

Well, today was an interesting one, I had a really great nights sleep and woke to beautiful sunshine, so once up put a brew on and enjoyed the fresh sea air and thought “what a wonderful day”, well, it could only go down hill from there.

My view this morning

So all was good as I travelled over the first bridge and as I was going across Sjaelland (Zealand) Island thought I’d get fuel and breakfast so called into the services just before Copenhagen, filled up (again) and went in to get breakfast, came out half an hour later to a parking ticket….That’s no beer for me tonight.

Bloody expensive breakfast. That’s about £65.

And I was off again over the second bridge and into Sweden, who still have border checks, the nice Mr policeman had plenty of questions but what threw me was his last one just as he was waving me off he asked “what football team do you support ?”, always thought thats the sort of thing the gestapo did to escaping POW’s.

Only 15 minutes later the motorway came to a standstill, all the traffic was being diverted off and through the small town of Helsingborg, that 3km took just over 2 hours to do.

The 50 KPH sign was wishful thinking.

As luck would have it I was still making good time and after another couple of hours decided to pull off at Kungsbacka and explore the countryside ending up at Onsala, which is on a small peninsula just south of Gothenburg.

Onsala Harbour.

Onsala and Hacklehagsvagen.

Once off the main highways, Sweden is a stunning country and would be worthy of a visit all on its own, it starts off pretty mundane but you soon get away from the industry and into the forests that line the motorway on one side and the ocean on the other. The only noticeable difference to the last 2 days are the bad state of the roads here, the motorways are a bit bumpy but the back roads are diabolical, every bit as bad as here.

I’ll put some random pics of bridges next as thats my thing.