Breakfast, we met the owner, Stefan. Friendly and chatty, asking what brought us to Lund from Australia. Explained our trip knowing full well what the next question was. “So where are your bikes now”. Gulp….
Leaving Lund we were impressed at the older architecture. It is one of Sweden’s oldest cities with over 1,000 years history.
Kungshuset is another interesting building, built by the Danish King Frederick II in the late 1570’s, intended as a residence for the Bishop of Lund.
The skies are very white with clouds as you can see below with this photo of Lund’s cathedral that dates back to the 12th century. It was built when Lund was still part of Denmark.
We started off with raincoats on as it was lightly spitting but the rain was not an issue today bar remnant puddles.
From Lund we headed towards the eastern Swedish coast and Landskrona, an interesting town, on the shores of the Oresund.
The Oresund is the stretch of water separating Sweden and Denmark.
First roundabout entering Landskrona.
Nice building and statue I’m yet to identify.
We headed to the waterfront and the Landskrona Citadel, a fortified building constructed by Christian III of Denmark.
An aerial view picture borrowed shows two moats. We rode around the path you can see between the two moats.
A few of our pictures.
Back along the waters edge, this is a water tower. In the far distance is Copenhagen.
We noted many lovely statues today.
We also noted the former battery fortifications all along the coastline each 100-200 metres.
The island beyond the jetty is Ven, where you can do day trips. Apparently a nice ride in the bike too.
We continued along the coastal path, mixture of sealed and gravel, to the outskirts of Helsingborg.
Cute houses along the harbour.
Another statue, outside part of the University of Lund’s Helsingborg campus. We figured maybe the building once manufactured boots.
Central Helsingborg was busy. A cleanup,effort was happening just to our right with grass being removed from the pavers by a large scrubbing brush attached to a machine.
Nice old harbour building at the entrance to the dock.
Flags are flying as it was windy! So much wind! None of it tail today.
Along this broad boulevard, we struggled to do 15 kmh into the wind.
We climbed a hill and lots of tourist buses were parked. Sofiero Slott was one of the Swedish royal family’s country estates. With the death of the King in 1970, it was gifted to the city.
Lots more windmills today.
Our route took us out along a peninsula that features numerous little fishing villages including Viken, Hoganas and Molle.
The headwind was crazy and we did contemplate cutting across the peninsula and heading to our overnight stay, but we kept going.
Some lovely vistas.
I was looking for an iced coffee but I got found first. These two ladies were very curious, aged 87 and 90. They later tooted us as they passed in their car. The lady on the right, has been to Australia.
Another guy, one who was in a boat just out of picture, then joined in. He wants to do a ride in Italy starting in Trieste and heading beneath Venice. Chatted with him as we have ridden that area.
Then two other blokes rocked up asking if our bikes were Madones (Trek). No they are Checkpoints (Trek). Ah!
Still no iced coffee and the ice cream shop does coffee, it does ice cream, but it does not do iced coffee…..bit tricky it seems!
So we got cracking with another 30 plus km to finish our longer day of 129 km.
We did enjoy some tail wind for about 20 km too!
Finally the last few km was along a trail.
We are in a cabin tonight. Very functional, quite busy and it had a restaurant, unlike the scary scene from Hel in Poland.
Unfortunately Tony has been quite unwell tonight and no longer benefits from the meal.
Hopefully tomorrow he will feel better as we meet someone special tomorrow.
I have investigated train options just in case.
Todays route.
That’s it folks, thanks for reading.
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