Pictures and Stories About Bicycle Tour Adventures

Change of Plans, Story: We're getting up and leaving earlier than the proprietor is used too, usually he would make a warm breakfast but we are up at 0400, packing our goods, eating cold cereal and leaving by 0430. Due to a Ferry Ship being down for unexpected maintenance (thank you Internet) we have to be at Nynäshamn (3 hour drive) tomorrow at 0900 to catch the one and only Ferry (to a pre-booked Motel at Visby on Gotland Island). This means that we now have to pick up our rental car today (a change of plans) and because it is Sunday (almost all commercial establishments are closed on Sundays) we have made special arrangements to pick-up our Rental Car (Car Hire) at 3 PM, today, in Katrineholm (our bike destination for the day). We are cycling back to the Dufweholms Herrgårdwhere Hotel/Inn, where we started the Bike Tour 7 days ago.

Above Left: We have picked up our bikes from a secure and locked garage, by pre-arrangement, and locked the garage afterwards.

Above Right: The skyline as we are departing the Regnagården Hostel.

Above Left: Daybreak, literally.

Above Right: Terry; Regna in the background.

Above Left: heading toward Högsjö for the moment. Bruk means Farm.

Above Right: Hej Hej Sheep. Hej Hej, pronounced 'Hey Hey' and means Hello.

Above Left: Toward Hävla.

Above Right: Low light motion picture of a passing lake.

Above: I saw the ears a long ways away. Previous Deer sightings have been as we were pedaling by the Deer. Even Terry has not seen any of my Deer sightings until now, we are actually about 300 meters/yards away and the camera is in full telephoto mode (4x). By the second picture, Terry pulled up beside me, knowing full well what was happening; Terry got to see this Deer (it is good).

Above: A single Deer (doe). This one was very dark. Dennis saw a fawn colored doe the first day and two yesterday. Today, we saw this dark Doe. Before 1000 hours, today, we will see 10 more deer, two will be dark, only two will have stubby horns (not with females), and twice we saw two sets of does with one fawn in each set. The horns will continue to grow until November or so and they will lose the horns in February or so.

If you want to see Deer from a bicycle, be on the road by sunrise.

Above: Bruksmiljö (we think); we're turning left (staying on the main road). Bruks Miljö means Mill Industry.

Above Left: Village of Hävla, Katrineholm sign in the background.

Above Right: Dennis and Terry.

Above Left: Sign for Katrineholm, 29k. We have also found the Yellow Sign Näckrosleden Bikeway that will lead within 1/2 k of our destination. The little Green Sign is the Sverigeleden Bikeway.

Above Right: Nice Reverse Texturing on the Window Finish.

Above Left: Whereas Bruk means Farm (in English), Bruks means Industry (or Industrial). This is the Häfla Iron Works, established in 1682. It, like all Steel Mills, is located on a river; I believe it is on the Häfla River (we have already pedaled through the small village of Häfla).

Above Right: This is a heavy duty stamper, depending on the configuration of the plunger, it can be used for crushing rock from mine ore, it can be used to flatten thick metal, or it can be used to embed an information stamp. In any case, the Stamper was made here.

During the 1700 and 1800 hundreds, ore from the Americas was shipped to Europe for processing.

Above Left: Industrial grounds: inventory awaiting disposition.

Above Right: Old, no longer used, iron works building.

Above Left: We are near a School Bus Stop. Bored kids (probably) have placed a rock on top of each flat surface, including tree stumps; it's interesting.

Above Right: Same area, a while back in time, kids painted rocks as frogs and lady bugs and placed them on this old Milsten distance marker. See Milsten/Milestone for a Distance Marker Explanation.

We were delighted to come across these little oddities.

Above: View of each direction, we stopped here for a little break.

Above: Old Barns, all of the old barns (100+ years old) are built on rock foundations, it was easier to build up then than it was to dig, like is done now.

Above Left: The biggest rosehips ever seen by us.

Above Right: It just rained, but not on us.

Above Left: Automobile yielding a safe clearance, very common in Sweden.

Above Right: Two signs, Intersection Ahead and Fall Ahead.

Above: Main train line tracks. We know that this set of tracks is positioned just before Katrineholm.

Above Left: Katrineholm.

Above Right: Hydraulic (water) Electrical Power Generators. This river water comes from the same river that passes by our Dufweholms Herrgårdwhere Hotel/Inn in Katrineholm.

Above: Hydraulic (water) Electrical Power Generators at Katrineholm, Sweden. This is a kaleidoscope of Power Point and MS-ICE soft works.

Above Left: Sign on the roadway, Children at Play, our bikeway merged with a village street.

Above Right: Terry and Alex, Alex is a Swedish Citizen from Chile.

The Bicycle Tour is over.
We had a wonderful time cycle touring throughout Sweden.
We are home for the night at Dufweholms Herrgårdwhere Hotel/Inn.
After freshening up, we will visit the town of Katrineholm to pick-up our Car Rental.

A Walk About Katrineholm

Above Left: It took me a while to figure this out; the first two structures had no bike(s) and was located at an empty school yard. This is an apartment building, and the structure is a bicycle parking shelter.

Above Right: Market, Marknad, Markt

Above Left: Kind of like a Greek Hero Sandwich Shop (Hot and Cold Dishes).

Above Right: Ice Cream Parlor.

Above Left: Swedish Telephone/Telefon Structure.

Above Right: Swedish Mail Boxes (similar to Germany but the Horn/Crier Symbol also has a Royal Crown).

Above Left: Purple/Pink Flowers.

Above Right: This Olivegården sells Plants.

The Dufweholms Herrgårdwhere Hotel/Inn and Dinner

Above Left: Swedish Armillary Sphere.

Above Right: God Lager (Good Beer), a local brew - The Beer was good.

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Big Travel Issue: I got tired of $20 glasses of wine where the waiters were pouring about a 1-2 inches of wine in 4-5 inch tall glasses - During the course of the Bike Tour, I felt cheated and switched to Beer and asked for the bottle. I've noticed this same kind of deceit in the USA too.

DO NOT give me this crap about the widest level of the glass being the best for the aroma - It is nothing more than saving a buck/krona at the customer's expense and it is LOW CLASS BEHAVIOR.
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Above Left: Dinner.

Above Right: Dessert (The Current looking Berries are Lingonberries).

Left: 300 year old, very expensive, fire place insert.

Center: Constitution like document.

Right: King Gustav (I think).