Lapland

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Epilogue - day 2 of 3. Next morning by five o'clock the sun shone through the window and I could not sleep. I got up, sneaked out to let Eva sleep on and took some photos. The morning was completely still. No sound whatsoever.

The old alley leading up to the mansion
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Wild red currant everywhere


No photo session is complete without bike pics


Running out of motives I figured I might as well lube the chain. However, that proved to be more complicated than usual as the fat stable cat decided I was his best friend (no doubt assuming I had food) and glued himself to my hands.

My very close friend this morning


By the time I'd managed to lube most of the chain and some of the cat, Eva was up. After breakfast and some route planning we enjoyed three hours of beautiful, empty twisting roads leading us to the Swedish east coast.

By chance we passed by the factory of the leading Swedish cheesecake producer, in Frödinge. We discovered that they run a summer cafe just outside the factory gates, offering generous portions of their product served with whipped cream and a selection of jams. We of course had to try it and came up with the bright idea to bring a package of cheesecake to our hosts. Securing the package to the bike turned out to be a bit tricky and Eva and I debated how to best do this - alarmingly wiggly but with the right side up, or just very wiggly but upside down. I advocated the latter and since it's my bike that's how it went. Of course Eva was right. On arrival the package had leaked all over the bike which then vaguely smelled of cheesecake for the rest of the trip (not bad really). The content was however possible to salvage and we had excellent if somewhat dry cheesecake for dessert later that evening.

Leaking, unknown to me

In the annals of motorcycle mucking about, this might be the first case of securing Swedish cheesecake to the back of one's bike; thus, some leakage is forgiven.