Our funky overnighter was adorned with rock posters of a Swedish rock festival held annually in the town. It is on again next week. Big acts have attended over the years including Queen, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Deep Purple…the list goes on.

The light above Tony, made using a drum cymbal.

We packed up and headed off, first having a look in the town square.

We soon found ourselves following a shoreline, an inlet bay from the Baltic.

Not all we see touring is beautiful. You cannot avoid industry. We rode past a very large paper mill, complete with wood chip piles, trucks arriving with plantation logging.

For us, this is the story of Burnie, where Tony grew up. The paper mill has now closed, but the timber trucks still arrive at the port.

We have our woodchip pile that grows and shrinks. As we no longer process in Tasmania, it is exported to other manufacturers.

Back into nature we popped into this nature reserve.

A big sign warned that cows roamed and usually they had a bull with them.

We predominantly followed the Sydostleden path today, but did deviate to avoid one large city Kristianstad.

That deviation took us through lovely country villages, that were very quiet.

Troll Lungby castle is part of one of the largest estates in Sweden. The major part of the Renaissance structure was built in the early 17th century.

The church adjacent to the estate has an older history dating back to the 1300’s.

Around lunchtime we were in Ahus, a larger town on the southern coast. We crossed the river.

We then detoured through holiday homes to the Baltic coast.

We were looking for some food and note a supermarket on our maps. We got here but the door was locked. We were about to set off when a lady exited.

She told us it was a self serve and self pay supermarket. She scanned us in, the door unlocked, we picked our items, we paid, we left.

She was super helpful and kind to scan us in as she said our Australian id would likely not work.

She explained that these kind of shops were not uncommon in Sweden in small villages.

Such shops make it viable for the owners. It was very well stocked, with obvious gaps in no fresh fruit and vegetables and breads.

Back on route. more divers and beaches.

Not sure if it is seaworthy, but looked just right in its position.

We fancied this holiday homes, directly facing the water.

Usually strava does not let you route through military land. Something went wrong here.

We have ridden past large tracts of Swedish military land already, with electric wire warnings.

So we headed inland and worked our way back to be on route again adding about 9 extra km to the day.

Sign for a garden centre.

Our last section as we headed back to the coast and to our overnight destination of Simrishamn was undulating with nice villages.

Arriving at our accomodation we had been previously told the bikes would go into a locked courtyard.

We had received a code to get into the building, accomodation first floor.

No one was around. It was a let yourself in deal. So we did just that.

We unpacked the bikes, luggage went to the room, followed by the unladen bikes being carted up to level one.

Suits us….

Breakfast will be interesting as we need to walk through that area to get to the stairs to leave…..but we will leave that problem for another day.

Today we rode 99 km and climbed 481 metres.

Our route today.