The Sweden Recap

It seemed that we raced through Sweden. After 52 days and 1,573 kilometres around Norway, we only had a total of 13 days and 497 kilometres of cycling through Sweden, and a bit of travelling on trains.
Sweden was much more relaxing with rest stops in Slabraten, Stockholm and Goteborg. The riding we did was much easier than Norway, with our daily average rising to 62km. The weather was up and down, when it was good it was great, but when it rained it certainly rained, but thankfully most of our rest days were rain free, giving us good opportunity to explore, swim, relax and enjoy the sun.
Sweden was obviously very similar to Norway, and we were able, with a slight adjustment, to use our basic greetings and thankyous as we went. We found the same law with camping, and the same good recycling system in use. One thing that impressed me was the extent of cycling paths in and around Stockholm, and the amount of people using these paths was impressive. I imagine Melbourne could do the same thing, but that would cut into the budget of all the new highways and bypasses and million dollar tunnel proposals that the Victorian Government sees as a tax payers right and the way of the future.

What I saw of the country of Sweden was impressive, with so much water everywhere. We passed 2 fellas at one stage walking their canoe along the road, heading from 1 lake to the next, which would be another nice way to cross parts of the country. In our travels this time we didn't venture into northern Sweden at all, but from what I hear, its more wild than the area we saw. Maybe next time we might get up into the Arctic Circle and have a look at the 24hrs of daylight.

And a huge thanks to our new friends, the Wingren and the Turunen Familys for putting us up and putting meat back on our bones.