Day One

Göteborg, Sweden

Hello!  This is the blog of Elsa and Ross, plus our trusty Surly Long Haul Truckers, Esmerelda and Ferdinand, cycling through Europe on an adventure, with no set route and no set schedule, for three months, and a bit more...!!!

We have been in Sweden for almost two weeks now: up north in Lappland for the first week, hiking the Kungsleden with my family (see above; also see the blueberry-pasture background image), then in Stockholm for a day, then here in Göteborg (Gothenburg) for five nights, with my sister and her partner – but now it's just the two of us.

More words and photos on our Swedish experiences to come, whenever we get WiFi again, but for now...we're off!  We've spent today rushing around town getting some assorted bike gear (maintenance tools mostly) to replace things that we lost when my seat pouch and Elsa's handlebar goodie-box were stolen a few nights ago.  But we're finally ready to hit the road... heading south...hopefully to make Copenhagen in three or four days...and we'll see what happens!

No walking, no driving, no skipping, no home... just bikes!