The day started as it had carried on most of the night, with heavy rain. Luckily there was a break in the cloud so I quickly packed a sodden tent together. I get chatting to some guy who had used a push scooter to scoot round Holland and parts of Denmark. I’m not sure I understood his interpretation of a scooter but that sounds pretty impressive. Where would you put your stuff?
I left wearing full waterproofs. The E45 wasn’t a particularly pleasant road, but luckily there weren’t as many lorries as usual as it was the weekend. I also had a strong headwind which was making progress particularly slow. This of course meant the rain was horizontal and coming straight into my face.
It didn’t get much better as the day progressed. I only had about 70km to do in total to Goteborg but the headwind was making the ride excruciatingly slow. Not to mention the road works I hit meant I was zigzagging across carriageways, up and down ramps.
When I did finally reach Goteborg I went straight to the port to enquire about the ferry. There was one just boarding and if I paid a substantially large sum of money I could get on it. Apparently the only way to get a cheap ticket is to book weeks in advance. I’d figured that if I save 10 euro or so by catching the one the next day I’d still have to pay for camping, so I raced for the ferry and was the last person on as the doors closed behind me, almost like an Indiana jones moment. Unfortunately this meant I saw absolutely none of Goteborg. I’ll come back another day I’m sure.
Once we ported in Frederikshavn I decided I might as well cycle another 50km to the west coast to Loken. There looked to be plenty of campsites there and the sun was now shining, that wind was still strong though.
I made it to the campsite where I booked in. Turns out I really do need a Scandinavian camping card, especially in Denmark. So the lady put me on a transit pass. A transit pass spreads the cost of the camping card over four nights stay. After watching a lovely sunset I went to bed.