Possibly not the best title but never mind. The rest of the journey to Helsingborg was relatively uneventful just somewhat long fairly flat, not too bad anyway.
But, there’s always something that comes up to distract one when on a long distance cycle ride in this case a chance opportunity to go on board the Azamara Onward as a speaker for the Baltic Cruise. This was a cruise that I had done in the past, so I had the lectures all set. Now, you can imagine how tempting that would be to sit in luxury cruise around the Baltic and give a few lectures rather than sweating it out down the highways and highways of Sweden however, the logistics was slightly too much. What was I going to do with my bike? Could I find a secondhand store to get some reasonable clothes to present in and presenting from an iPad is not the easiest. A bit more of a knife edge decision than I wished, anyway I decided in the end it was in the too hard basket and continued on my way.
The next hard decision. Do I continue on across into Denmark and down through Denmark or alternatively do I cycle down to Malmo and then take the ferry to Travemunde. well, what decided it for me was the cost of campgrounds in Denmark and their availability. All of the campgrounds around Helsingor were full and what campgrounds that were available cost at least $80 for a little square piece of grass on which to put my tent. So I decided to spent what I thought would be a nice easy 50 to 60 K ride to go down to Malmo and then get the night ferry from there. It is actually quite a lovely ride. Well worth doing although it did end up being more like an 85K ride as I kept taking diversions along the way. Memo itself was in the middle getting ready for a massive weekend and so the center was fairly closed up as they were putting up all sorts of fairground rides and games and so on, but it is quite a nice city, which surprised me I hadn’t expected it to be so.
Then, I went to the port and started the ferry ritual of sitting in the tarmac, waiting for registration to open, and then finally board the ship and sail. As there was a few of us, Mötley lot on bicycles, a whole line of long-distance trucks from Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Germany, and of course Campervans. So it was goodbye to Sweden and on to Germany.