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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We were the first to breakfast. The owner Stephen was there but beyond us saying hi, he did not speak, and left the building shortly thereafter. We smiled.

Ideal as we could get the bikes out through the breakfast room without raised eyebrows.

So nobody knew, and no traces of our bike storage faux pas, we left Simishramn.

The weather was sunny with blue sky, but the forecast was for rain later in the day.

It was windy, our constant companion on this trip.

This is the church over the road. St Nicholas church dates from the 1100s, originally built as a chapel for fishermen.

The first section of coast was mainly rocky. Today was going to be our last day following the Baltic Sea.

We rode through small villages by the sea. A few views.

We turned off the main cycle path to head to Ales Stenar, a megalithic monument, in the shape of a stone ship.

We pushed our bikes up a dirt path, following other tourists, but rode the flatter top section.

Lots of tourists heading in.

The feature is 67m long formed by 59 large boulders, weighing up to 5 tonnes each.

Research and scientific testing indicates that they were placed some 1,400 years ago towards the end of the Nordic Ice Age.

The purpose could be a burial site or alternatively a sun calendar.

My question, regardless of original purpose, how they got the boulders here, into position.

We left down this path. I ended up walking my bike down, squeezing the brakes as there were steps and slippery looser sections.

There were some lovely cafes just opening along the foreshore and we grabbed a coffee and Swedish treat.

We took the time to put on our over booties as the skies were clouding in and we could see rain to the west, our direction.

Back up to the main path and we headed towards Ystad, where we had been on Day 1, staying in the water tower, catching the ferry to Bornholm Day 2.

It had started to lightly rain just as we said farewell to the Baltic, here at another smaller group of stones. These are known as Disas Ting. This was a burial site during the Iron Age as skeletal remains have been found.

Further theories date it to the early Stone Age and believe it to be a large megalithic tomb. A Stone Age settlement was known to have existed nearby.

We headed inland, across this road and up quiet road.

This section of the day was to be our favourite, full of wonderful slotts (castles), frames, homes, churches and nicely undulating roads.

Charlottenlund Slott is a more modern castle built in 1849.

It was around 12.30 pm and we were peckish to we stopped at this bus stop to eat some of our supplies. Bus stops provide great shelter.

We liked this garden.

Old wagon and milk vats, reminded me of Benny Hill for some reason…

A church in the distance across the fields.

Marsvinsholm Slott dates back to the 14th century, originally owned by the Danish royals. The current castle was constructed in the 1600’s after it fell into private ownership.

The roads were delightfully quiet.

Skarby kryka (church) was built in the 12th century with additions in the 15th and 18th centuries.

A lovely garden, well maintained. Our goal here was more water! Cemeteries nearly always have fresh water available.

Rolling hills and roads helped keep us warm, as the temperature had dropped.

A view through the vegetation of Snogeholm Slott, on the shores of a lake of the same name. there was a fortress on an island in the lake back in the 13th century.

In 1690 this castle was rebuilt after the former burned down, but the current castle dates to the 1870’s.

The last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, also eldest grand child of Queen Victoria, spent time here hunting.

This is our last photo of the day. It was blowing very hard here.

We found a supermarket nearby where I entered to buy some food. It was not raining when I entered. When I came out it was spitting. Tony had checked the radar and said we were going to get wet.

So we gulped down our drink and put our heads down, now into head and side winds, and raining. We had 40 km to go, and it rained for 35 km.

The last 5 km the rain stopped, and the wind dried us out.

We navigated Lund via a cycle way that went through parklands, and only had a few cobbled streets to ride. Lots of cyclists everywhere here.

We arrived at our accomodation dry, but our bikes were grotty. It is amazing how much sandy grot attaches itself when wet despite being on sealed surfaces for 99% of the day.

Another self check in B&B, with accomodation on the first floor.

As I transported our luggage up over multiple trips, Tony cleaned the bikes.

Our intent was to take them to our room that had washable floors we could wipe down.

Task completed, and another breakfast room to get the bikes past (but not through!) tomorrow.

We went for a wander for dinner and found a nice Japanese restaurant. Lund is a very vibrant, happening city with a population of around 130,000.

It is also University town and that was evident as we people watched.

Today we rode 119 km, climbed 685 metres, so a solid day.

Rain is forecast overnight, and due to STOP by 8 am. Fingers crossed…

Today’s route.

Thanks for reading.