Nyköping

It should have been quiet at 6am but there’s about 1000 canadien geese circling overhead and making a hell of a din. No cars though as the ferry hasn’t started running yet. We were just commenting on the fact that we hadn’t seen any deer in this country yet when around the next corner we startled a stag with a magnificent set of antlers. I must sound like a broken record but seeing the deer early in the morning is always excitingAnd speaking of noise. This beast sounded like a train coming up behind us when he passed us on the way to work. I’ve never seen a tractor quite like it. It’s running on rubber tracks. We caught up to him a little later discing a wheat field that had just been harvested with his mate spreading lime in front of himSwedish horses are obviously more intelligent than ours. The sign is telling them not to poop on the road. Or what ? Glue factory ?Another medieval road marker. I photographed the plaque next door to quiz the next Swede I can bail upIf it’s not wheat it’s horses . Where are the COWSTrosa. There’s some lovely old homes through hereAlthough we’re riding beside the Baltic we hardly ever see it because of all the fingers of land jutting out. This is near Sjosa.this guy needed an Allen key. As it happened it was the only tool I had left. The rest went with the bikes. The old fella with the hat took us to a massive hardware ,come bike shop where we got nearly all I needed .Nyköping. The old flour mill still stands , now a restaurant. The new mill is behindIts over 30 degrees and these kids are having a ball. Our hotel! It’s the old sunlight soap factory turned into a very nice hotel in 1994. The reception were very surprised when we told them we always travel with a couple of bars of it. Long since run outEspecially since we can’t find it in Europe