We did this and by chance ended up in Nora, which is quite a famous town here in Sweden, being one of the 3 towns with the best-preserved wooden houses. There are several very old businesses here including the ice-cream shop that was stared in 1920 and the kitchen shop, where Frederick is the 5 th generation proprietor.

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We left Nora again on the small road following the route suggested by our Swedish friend Orvar to Skoyde, where he met us and then toured us thru all the back back roads to Trollhattan.


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We passed some of the private villas in the countryside.

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Orvar had to pull out the spare gas 8 km from home!

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Here in Trollhattan our friends Orvar and Anne again hosted us. There was the international Nordic-ski competition (48 km of hell by the looks of it).


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Saturday night we started the party early with some drinks in the city, then a BBQ, and then an open-air concert. We did a very Swedish thing since we rode our bikes around the city.


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We had a quick visit for one night from Bart and Renata from the Netherlands. They had also met Orvar in Ushuaia. They are on a 2-week trip and were passing by on the way home.


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It is finally time to really head south and of course we picked the day it is pouring rain. Despite that we still decided to make the 349 km trip to Copenhagen in 2 days. The first we went east and south on the small back roads 298 km to Almhult.

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It rained hard almost all the way to the cable ferry at Sunnaryd. This was a lake crossing, but was one of the roughest we had. Actually holding the bike upright was difficult.


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Almhult is the birthplace of IKEA and so we had to go there for some Swedish meatballs of course.

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We opted for a cabin to hide from the rain, but the next day we woke to the sunshine.

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Keep it Coming
 

Great Pictures and dialogue. Keep it coming. Will be heading out end of the month touring the southern parts of the US from Mi. Will still be tracking your ventures.

Wow thanks very much! Have a great trip. Ride safe. We are currently headed to Belgium tomorrow for a few days.

We made the 182 km trip to Copenhagen into a 323 km day by really taking the small single-track roads. This was until we arrived near to the coast at Landskrona when we did take the secondary road north to Helsingborg.


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Near the castle we enjoyed a farewell to Sweden lunch of open-faced shrimp sandwiches and the biggest piece of apple piece with meringue and vanilla cream you have ever seen.

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We arrived at the ferry to see 4 bikes tearing up the lane number 2 and onto the ferry. As we drove up lane 2 they closed the gate! Good thing the next ferry was only a few minutes. The crossing is about 15 minutes and costs (gulp) 19 Euros each. Arriving at the dock in Helsingborg we could see a huge black rain cloud over the city. We had planned to take the long way around the coast and in fact missed the storm.



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I had contacted the HUBB Copenhagen for some advice and we had been invited to the home of Henrietta. She has done the ride from Alaska to Ushuaia and received a lot of hospitality and she was paying it forward.

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She is awesome! Not only is she an adventure rider, but also she is a Copenhagen roller derby skater!

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