Sounds close enough to bedding 😴

Tent’s up, I’m going to finish my sandwich while I write this, and call it a night.

Goodnight world 🙂

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The night receptionist let me in, once I filled in all his paperwork I could choose where to put my tent up from the electric-free bays.

J was electrics, so it had to be bay H. Obviously. (Maybe not so obvious, but anyway. Sometimes I need unnecessary criteria to make making decisions easier).

There was a level-ish bit with two trees which I originally thought was great (and hammock friendly) but on closer inspection turned out to be soggy and not all that flat. The next level bit was next to a party of Germans being entertained by one guy telling them (and the rest of the campsite) tales of his heroic acts of heroism.. and yet I was/am too tired to really care so I set up camp.

Not too tired to appreciate the tent tho.

I absolutely love this tent.

It went up so well, despite me being stupid-tired and having forgotten all the tricks I learned last year.

I haven’t unpacked anything beside the bare minimum: tent, mat, sleeping bag, light, citronella candle (unlit), sandwiches washkit.

Everything else is in a heap in the ‘porch’. I’ll need to find a good way to arrange it all soon.. but not tonight 🙂

Goodnight world.

Also much appreciate/d the sandwiches 🙂

Saw these on the way through Stockholm:

We’re here to make things work.

Cancel your plans.

Make some mischief.

Raining hard outside. Windy.

Packed the last bit of my bike inside the station.

Plan was to leave the bike in a bike box and my luggage in a luggage locker and find a train northbound. The train website I found while I was on the bus had said the train was fully booked, so I wanted to find someone to ask..

But.

The train station is pretty, in a station-y sort of way, but also mostly deserted.

No one in the ticket office, no help from the ticket machines.

I’m way too tired to wrangle a bike to a different part of a station that may or may not be helpful.

Half an hour of googling and researching and writing to Warmshowers people later I phoned a campsite instead.

Priorities: first sleep then think 🙂

And the rain stopped and the wind dropped and sun came back out.

Yay 🙂

After a manner..

What a lot of stuff.

🙈

No wonder the road’s all wet…

First glimpse of the Baltic 🙂

Last time I was here, I was introduced to an app called Turf. You can claim parts of cities by standing in particular areas for a set period of time, mostly around 15 seconds.

I remembered the app as we were approaching the city and opened it… and the exact place the bus stopped was one of the turf areas.. so I claimed it 🙂

And now I count as an advanced traveller.

Yay 🙂

This presumably qualifies me for the trip to the North…

😅🤔

This is mostly what the landscape’s been like for many kms..

I remember being amazed by all the wild lupins during my first trip here, and now I’m amazed all over again 🙂

Don’t know how I forgot them really. There are so many (in some places)

There’s a JCB (-type) company just before Ljungby and they have a JCB as a water fountain, with water pouring out of the digger bucket.

So cool 😍

Too busy looking to take a picture 🙂

..but so do their workers 🙂

😂🤔

The ‘logistics’ part was written on the other end of the building..

Argh.

I woke up at the far end of the bridge.

The bridges are some of my favourite parts of the journey…

Slept acrossmone bridge, woke up in time to eat at least part of a breadbun on the second bridge.

We are close to the ferry. Unfortunately we cannot stay on the bus for the crossing. You are welcome on the top deck of the ferry. The crossing should take 40 minutes. When we are approaching, you wil hear a signal. It it important that you come back to the bus quickly. We cannot wait for you.

Can’t see it on the picture, the sign says: ‘next departure 4:45’ which is in 14 minutes, or 16 minutes after we arrived. Doesn’t look like there’s a huge queue tho 🙂

Even in northern Germany..

Seems a rather tortuous route tho.. I was expecting to get on the ferry at Rostock after we let people on/off. Not entirely sure how we’re getting to Copenhagen now. Maybe ferry from Fehmarn, maybe land all the way???

It’s kind of surreal, getting on a bus with nothing but the vaguest idea of a plan for the time after getting off the bus…

One on, four off.. (I think. But maybe two on, lots off for a cigarette..)

Why are bus toilets so much grosser than train toilets?

Leaving at 23:00, apparently 30 mins late..

🙂

Getting good at this 🙂

The bracket is now readjusted and tightened and perfect 🙂

Start 21:00

‘Big white block charger’

Phone + long white C-C cable (100% @ 1:30 (or earlier) )

Black 20k powerbank + short black A – C cable (100% @ 8:00 (or earlier))