Day 11
Current location: Mora
Km ridden: 250 ish
Painful and annoying Mosquito bites: ca. 15

So trying to catch up on the blog, I think I'm still a few days behind.  On the last post we were staying in Karlstad with Jonas, a friend of Vanessa.  Not really too much to say there.  A nice dinner on the harbour before we we thought we would go for an early night.  Turns out it was early morning as we crawled in at about 1 am.

The next morning we planned to ride through to Stockholm, where it was Vanessa's turn to book a dodgy hotel.  Actually, thats not really fair.  The hotel was actually very nice, but it wasn't anywhere near Stockholm itself.  It might have only been a 10 minute ride on a train, but on the roads, it seemed to take forever.  It didn't really help that the sat nav had no idea where it was and wanted us to take the ferry over to Finland.  Which means that when the 3 of us (Jonas was still with us) finally got there, and a drunk Russian tried to talk to us dispite us being already in the middle of a conversation, I lost it.  Thankfully, he didn't understand half of what I said, otherwise I'm sure a punch up would have ensued, but I'm sure he got the message....

Jonas left us on the Sunday morning to go back to Karlstad, so Vanessa and I thought we would go in to Stockholm itself to check it out.  Its a very nice city built on several small islands.  We brought tickets for the hop on hop off boat service.  It was a very nice and relaxing day, and we stopped off half way to check out the Aquarium and then have a few beers before heading back.  One thing that both of us have noticed, is that the further we are riding, the more fatigued we're both getting.  Thats one of the reasons I've not really been updating the blog as often as I should, or in my normal, slightly irreverent and borderline offensive style.

From Stockholm we rode slightly north to Gävle (site of yesterday's post) and stopped at a camp site.  Another 2 days of doing sod all and trying to get some energy back.  More will be posted tomorrow (hopefully I'll not be so tired), but in the meantime, here are some pics of the days so far.