Well, after the last blog entry, one was promised tomorrow.  Here it is three days later.  We are about to leave Gothenburg; it is Friday morning. 

We arrived in Sweden on a night boat from Grenaa in Denmark, to Varberg in Sweden.  We had a wonderfully warm cabin.  We left the boat at 07.30, and felt lost, as we were.  A delivery man told us where there was a cafe doing bacon and eggs p- how many delivery men in England would speak a foreign language so well, if at all?  After this, we went to tourist info when they opened. They were pretty ignorant about the North Sea cycle route and about cycle routes beyond the county where Varberg is.  But they gave us stuff in route in the counthy, Halland.  We went to see an exhibition about a man who  died (was killed) in ca 1360 and found in a bog recently - fascinating in many ways - and set off.  Soon after departure there was this,

Which was encouraging.  Most signs were for the Ginstleden route but were frequent and usually clear.  The route was mainly on quiet roads.  There was just one bit, of about 6km, on a busy main road without cycle tracks and that was a bit unnerving.  The coutry started flat, but became hilly which we were still not used to.  It is either wind of hills, often both, but wind OK this day.  At one stage, we were by the sea

On one uphill we were next to some neolithic standing stones

This photo does show the character of the countryside a bit.  We did not get to Goteborg in one day, and stopped in  place called Kungsbacka, in a small yout hotel.  Yes, i know we do not qualify on age grounds, but that was not a problem and there was no campsite. 

The next day, the cycle track continued, starting by a main road (woth a reserved cycle path), brancing off this and going through pleasant country.  Then either we passed the county boundary, where our maps and info ceased, or we simply missed a sign, but we were lost, ending up on quite a busy road that joined a motorway.  Off down a side road in the right direction.  After a bit of this, asked the way.  Told there was a cycle route to Goteborg on an old railway track, but the directions he gave did not get us to it.  After a couyple more enquiries, a woman told us more correctly how to get to it, but check in a yellow kiosk on the way.  Missed the kiosk and lost again, asked one more time.  Found the kiosk which did a good and cheap lunch.  Then got to the seaside and there was  the cycle track.  This took us straight  into Goteborg.  The receptionist in the Kungsbacka hotel had told us of the Ibis hotel onn a boat, and this was affordable and where we stayed

We did not take many photos in the city. It is lovely place to visit, but not old with a medieval quarter or that sort of thing. Photos mainly of trams, for grandson reasons, and you have one of those, but there was this cycleway signpost, to show that the exit may be complicated.  The place is superb for cycling.  Good cycle paths, clear directions (if you know where you want to go) and wonderfully accommodating motorists.  So we walked everywhere we went - had had enough of cycling for a while! Did 3 museums and walked around and generally had time out of the cycle route.