Tuesday 2 November 2010

Day 25 - Wild wild west

Ok, so we've only gone west slightly but already we're hittin' up the country folk! Our Dad is obsessed with looking up where we are on google earth and keeps saying it looks like the wild west we are and right now I am inclined to agree!

                                                                 Ye olde petrol station
                                              -2 when we left our little hut at 9am this morning!

So from Orrefors we were making our way to Fägelfors along long long empty roads but for the occasional beat-up old Volvo or even a vintage Saab - nice! I keep looking out for handsome young men driving such cars but unfortunately most of the drivers are at least 60 and barely batt an eyelid as they saunter past us.

This is glass making country - the ground is really sandy here so there are lots of Glasbruks along the way (adding to my increasing paranoia about getting another puncture!) those and wood factroies as I like to call them. There's loads of them - huge huge plots dedicated to the sorting, chopping, slicing and dicing of trees. Mega mega woodpiles and then nothing. For miles.

We took some brilliant short cuts today - our map shows all the little track-type roads which cut through Sweden allowing all the country bumpkins to get to where they live. These roads are brilliant and quite exciting as you always feel a little bit like you're going to get lost but somehow never do.

We arrived at our hostel by 2pm (this is getting silly now, are we being lazy not going so far or are we just turning in to speed demons?) and were greeting by the lovely landlady who managed to tempt me very easily in to agreeing to pay an extra 6pounds for breakfast - it sounded so good! The hostel was lovely but somewhat of a time-warp - again photos to follow. It was a bit like being in the Swedish version of 'That 70's Show' (a programme they seem to love over here - noooo!).

                                                                       Cooky hostel!
Miles today - 38

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