I subconsciously noticed that Slawek left early in the morning. Two hours later we woke up and had breakfast together with Ania who asked if we would like to stay another night. When we met yesterday we immediately felt that we were on the same wavelength with Ania and Slawek and we got along very well. Ania told us that we could do some fun things together if we stayed the Friday night too. We declined and she said that it was OK if we later changed our minds. Afte we had left her we discussed for a long while if we should stay another night and we both wanted to, but at the same time we strongly felt that it was time to move on. We really like Ania and Slawek but we decided to decline their offer to stay one more night, but we are determined to go and see them once we are back from this trip. Gdynia is after all not that far away from Sweden.

The issue of staying another night or not made me think about the purpose of this trip. It is to cycle from Göteborg to Bangkok, but it is as much to discover what there is between our two homes and meet interesting people. Here we met some very nice people so why shouldn’t we stay? I don’t really know the answer! We want to get to know people but we also strongly feel that we are on the move, and since we have been moving too little the last week we feel a bit restless. It is strange because once we started our trip there is an underlying desire to move forward. I guess we have to find a reasonable balance between the urge to move on and to get to know the people along the way.

Anyway – thanks a million times Ania and Slawek. Welcome anytime to visit us in Sweden or Thailand.

When we left Ania around 10 in the morning, we rolled down to Sopot city and went out to the nice beach. There we took a number of photos which we have sent to our sponsor Klättermusen. Below you find two of those photos.

Wej at Sopot beach

Beach cycling???

I am very fatalistic when it comes to rain, headwind, tailwind, flat tyres and all those kind of problems. I think good and bad luck evens out in the long run. If you have a really good day with the wind on your back, downhill and sunshine, then you will sooner or later have to pay it back with uphill, rain and a flat tyre.

Today we had a nice sunshine, a mild temperature and a steady wind on our backs. Cycling is rarely as easy as it was today. Does this mean that we in a few days can look forward to headwind with rain and 10 flat tyres? I would say no, because today’s experience was prepaid by cycling in sub-zero temperatures, rain, snow and on icy roads last week. Today was simply pay back for the 7 cycling days in Sweden.