Saturday started with heavy wind and rain. I packed the wet tent and started cycling around 9:30am towards Varberg and ultimately to Grimeton. One of my goals of this journey was to visit the Grimeton Radio Station, the home of the Alexanderson Long Wave Transmitter – SAQ. Bad weather couldn’t stop me! I was there and saw the huge antennas, the transmission lines, the booth and some little extras. Unfortunatelly, I lost a lot of time for sightseeing and photographs but as always: #worthit. SAQ will transmit on July 2nd and celebrate its 100th birthday!
I continued the bike tour and visited the cities of Varberg (12 km) and Kungsbacka (50+ km after Varberg). In Kungsbacka, there was a huge Pride Parade and after randomly ordering a hamburger, I met a cyclist from Austria who was trying to cycle to Nordkapp! He had to cancel his travel to Nordkapp due to a bike defect with his spokes. We had a 20 minute chat about cycling, very nice guy.
Cycling to Göteborg took much more time than expected. Even with shortcuts to save some time and favoring weather conditions, I was still some 15 km away from the city and wasn’t able to find any camping grounds. The clock showed 22:30 hours and I had troubles reaching the daily goal. This of course ended in a bad situation for me… didn’t find a stay over night and camping inside or around Göteborg was virtually impossible. Had to sleep on a bench. Awful!
I did get maybe 2 hours of sleep, I was freezing, everything hurt after a long cycling day and it took a lot of effort to stay motivated.
Cycled till midnight: 132.5 km, 9h17m, 14.25 km/h
