It’s been a busy week or so as we left Uppsala and moved to a small apartment in a suburb of Stockholm. It was midsummer holidays for the Swedes so two days of public holiday. We had a very nice day out at Skansen, the open air museum with our friend Louisa who lives in Stockholm. Thanks Louisa, it was great fun!
We thought this sign was amusing in the nordic wildlife area of the museumI was rather taken with this very nice VolvoThis is one of the escalators in the Stockholm rail system, styley!I think this is an antique telephone boxPauline and I jumped on a ferry to Ekerö as we had a 24 hour metro card which covers the ferries as well, it was a lovely rideWe took the train from Stockholm to Copenhagen, this was taken on the bridge between Malmö and Copenhagen
It was a long day, left about 9 am and arrived at our hotel about 9 pm, changing trains several times along the way.
The view from our hotel in Svendborg This is the Hotel Ærø we stayed at on the way to Finland, it’s the only hotel I’ve been to where they have an eye opener as part of the breakfast buffetThere’s some cool old buildings in Svendborg Built in 1682I liked this freighter, you can volunteer to crew for it, the crew are mostly retired people. If I lived here I’d do it!One of the museums in Svendborg We took the ferry across to Ærø
I’d arranged for some hired bikes on the island so we picked them up and then had a strategic lunch before biking to Søby via the scenic route along the coast.
Lunch was quite flash, unexpectedly so.Getting ready for the off. The bikes were 7 speed, typical Danish bikes. We liked the upright riding position but they were heavy.I was surprised to see this rather nice mini ute on the way up the island.The guy was working on his boatIt’s very pretty here.
We biked back to Ærøskøbing via the opposite coast, and took the ferry back to Svendborg, leaving the bikes at the harbour. The next day we returned and biked in the opposite direction to Marstal.
MarstalMarstalThe island has a large solar water heating plant at Marstal, one at Ærøskøbing and some wind turbines, they actually export electricity. Typical thatched roofed houses along the way were very cute. Back to the square in Ærøskøbing
It’s been a very nice stay here in Svendborg, the biking on Ærø was fun but hot. I’ll be glad to get back to the hotel for a beer! (Writing this on the ferry back)
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