To be or not to be... wet

Date: 2005-07-19 18:51 UTC
Location: Åstorp, Sweden
Mileage: 224 km

The morning was humid with the thunderstorm that had faded just hours earlier and hot with the early risen sun as we left the hostel, some time later light rain appeared, but by the time we reached next sane place for changing clothes it had gone away and we were almost dry again, so we just got some more gas and continued. Sure enough 10 minutes later it was raining again, by the time we reached Farö it had gone and we stopped to have some brunch. As we left it started dripping again, this time it was slightly heavier but didn't last for long.

We skipped Roskilde due to the weather (and we didn't have anything specific we'd like to see there), and went to see the Kronborg castle in stead, for now the sun was shining and I put my jacket over my helmet to protect it from heat, halfway trough the castle I realized that it would have been better spent over my backpack protecting it from the rain that came in as heavy showers, by the time we got back to our bikes it had lessened to a light drizzle.

Wet we continued to the harbor to cross on to Sweden, again murderous looks from the cars as the harbor was quite full (but not nearly as so as in Puttgarden) as we're guided in first, past all the queues. In Sweden it wasn't raining much, but the roads were soaked and soon were we too with the mist raised by cars and ourselves. So we decided to look for somewhere to spend the night and get our gear dried, and found Hotel Milano in Åstorp (56N08'19.7'', 12E56'52.3''), the "rooms" are cabins with after-added shower/toilet but on the other hand it's not overly expensive and at least there are no misbehaving spawn of someone next door banging on the wall.

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