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David M
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about: Re: touring sweden
> On 2 Apr, 16:02, dabac <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> ratfink Wrote:> Does anyone have any tips regarding the roads in Sweden.
It's quite common for (in Swedish terms) 'major' (non-motorway) roads to
have wide shoulders (pretty much a full lane-width wide) which are
intended for slower vehicles to pull over into, to allow faster vehicles
to pass. We found these were just fine for cycling on. In many places we
were able to stick to quieter backroads, where there was virtually no
traffic (really, wildernessy levels of emptiness!). Truth be told, there
wasn't really an awful lot of traffic outwith the towns themselves (this
was roughly following the coast from the south of Sweden to Stockholm).
> Aparrently the Sverigeleden runs from Karesuando on the northern
> border to Smygehuk in the south, possibly via Gothenburg (I could be
> wrong). Even the Swedes says "it's difficult to find information about
> this trail on the Internet". Anyone got more on this?
Try also searching for "cykelspåret ostkusten" (east-coast cycle route).
[My newsreader will doubtlessly mutilate the above: my text editor
understands Unicode, my newsreader doesn't.. The first word is supposed
to be 'cykelspaaret' - replace 'aa' with the a-ring letter. Typing this
letter on the piece of **** that passes for the typical UK PC-keyboard
layout is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)]
This cycleroute starts in Ystad, and ends up in Haparanda, a placename
that seemed naggingly familiar[1] at the time, but didn't click until I
later did some more detailed map-surfing..! This route seems to exist
more as a concept than a signposted route, although there was a
start-point sign in Ystad, I don't recall us seeing many/any other
signs, although with a good map, an eye for quieter roads and a good
sense of direction, we ended up heading in the right direction!
Note that we only covered the Ystad - Stockholm section of the route:
be aware that even that is a lot longer than you might think, it's about
the same distance as London - Edinburgh, and even that is only about 1/3
of the length of Sweden. Our initial plan was then to go to Finland by
ferry and then continue to the Arctic Circle, but we kinda realised that
by this stage we were running out of time and money!
(It's still on my to-do list ;-)
[1] But not quite as eerily familiar as later passing through
Mölnlycke (Moelnlycke) and being disturbed that I already 'knew' the
name, but didn't know _why_ ..until the next time I went to dry my
hands in a public toilet.. ;-)
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about: Re: touring sweden
> On 2 Apr, 16:02, dabac <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> ratfink Wrote:> Does anyone have any tips regarding the roads in Sweden.
It's quite common for (in Swedish terms) 'major' (non-motorway) roads to
have wide shoulders (pretty much a full lane-width wide) which are
intended for slower vehicles to pull over into, to allow faster vehicles
to pass. We found these were just fine for cycling on. In many places we
were able to stick to quieter backroads, where there was virtually no
traffic (really, wildernessy levels of emptiness!). Truth be told, there
wasn't really an awful lot of traffic outwith the towns themselves (this
was roughly following the coast from the south of Sweden to Stockholm).
> Aparrently the Sverigeleden runs from Karesuando on the northern
> border to Smygehuk in the south, possibly via Gothenburg (I could be
> wrong). Even the Swedes says "it's difficult to find information about
> this trail on the Internet". Anyone got more on this?
Try also searching for "cykelspåret ostkusten" (east-coast cycle route).
[My newsreader will doubtlessly mutilate the above: my text editor
understands Unicode, my newsreader doesn't.. The first word is supposed
to be 'cykelspaaret' - replace 'aa' with the a-ring letter. Typing this
letter on the piece of **** that passes for the typical UK PC-keyboard
layout is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)]
This cycleroute starts in Ystad, and ends up in Haparanda, a placename
that seemed naggingly familiar[1] at the time, but didn't click until I
later did some more detailed map-surfing..! This route seems to exist
more as a concept than a signposted route, although there was a
start-point sign in Ystad, I don't recall us seeing many/any other
signs, although with a good map, an eye for quieter roads and a good
sense of direction, we ended up heading in the right direction!
Note that we only covered the Ystad - Stockholm section of the route:
be aware that even that is a lot longer than you might think, it's about
the same distance as London - Edinburgh, and even that is only about 1/3
of the length of Sweden. Our initial plan was then to go to Finland by
ferry and then continue to the Arctic Circle, but we kinda realised that
by this stage we were running out of time and money!
(It's still on my to-do list ;-)
[1] But not quite as eerily familiar as later passing through
Mölnlycke (Moelnlycke) and being disturbed that I already 'knew' the
name, but didn't know _why_ ..until the next time I went to dry my
hands in a public toilet.. ;-)
--
David M. -- Edinburgh, Scotland. --[en,fr,(de) <-- corrections welcome]
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