From Malaysia to Sweden: Cycle to Lovön

Saturday, 25 July 2020

Cycle to Lovön

The cycling trip continues the following week. This time, we cycled to Lovön, a much shorter distance than our first cycling trip to Tyresta National Park. The route has lesser uphills. I am glad we chose this destination because Lovön (ön = the island) is scenic and has very large blueberries. I was disappointed that we did not bring huge boxes to store the blueberries.

This is a 2-day cycling trip. We camped near the waters on Lovön. The first day had a distance of 38km and it took me 3 hours and 45 minutes. The next day was way shorter - 19km and it took 1.5 hours only! You can imagine how surprised I was that I was home so quick. Haha!

22 July 2020

At 11.45am, we started our ride towards Ekerö kommun. We decided that we will have lunch along the way. We cycled past Drottningholmslott, one of Sweden's UNESCO World Heritage. It is a palace and the garden is open to public.

One is not allowed to cycle on the palace's grounds. So, we pushed our bicycles until we left the grounds.

We took a detour from Lovön and cycled southwards into Ekerö to look for a cafe that has outdoors seating. We had a nice lunch of bacon salad and shrimp salad at Bageri Ekerö.

The ride goes back northwards towards Lovön. This is where the scenic route starts as we cycled through the countryside. Look at those blue skies and white puffy clouds! And the farmhouses! And the fields! I was on natur-gasm when I saw the view.

We were close to our camping spot until our naked eyes saw huge blueberries along the gravel road. It was impossible to find such huge blueberries in Stockholm. We got off our bicycles and ate some of them. They were so good! I was keen to pluck the blueberries and the only box we had was the one containing our dinner. So, we decided that we will pluck them the next day on our ride back home.

We found our camping spot. It was very windy when we arrived. We thought it would be a good idea to start a fire. There were no one else around the area. We explored the area and found two scouts' huts.

We sat by the waters till sunset. It was a beautiful sunset. It got colder too, and I had my downjacket on. Yes, it must be weird to have a downjacket during summer.