An overcast day today on Sollerön. We’ve decided to try a circular cycle route off and then back onto the island. It’s supposed to be easy and around 14 miles.

Well it’s not quite. We miss the cycle path and end up cycling 6.5 miles mostly uphill on roads without a cycle lane. Luckily not much traffic. Then 0.5 mile on the single lane E45 with lots of traffic and lorries and also no cycle lane! There’s another 5 miles which is pleasant enough through villages and forest before we’re back on the road again but this time we have a cycle lane. The final mile was hellish and hard going through a muddy and rocky forest track. So definitely not up there in my favourites. It was 17 miles too! Lots of lovely lupine of course.

In one of the villages I took a photo of the post boxes. You see small groups of post boxes everywhere. Must make the posties job a little easier.

Back to the van and eventually we enjoy chicken stroganoff with rice watching the end of the excellent Dept. Q on Netflix and a bit more of Season four of Game of Thrones. It’s just as hard to watch the Mountain crush Oberyn Martell second time around.

A cycling day not to be repeated.

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