It's stupid

(By Felix)

Ahhhh another blog today. I did one a week ago! Now we are in Sweden again and I think last time I wrote one was in the south of Sweden. Now at the start of today I was in vindeln. An apparent beautiful place with supposedly enough tourists to fill a massive motel type thing. But anyway it was full to under 5% of its capacity. We headed to breakfast relatively early at 7am. One really stupid thing that happened was the milk selection. There was two options: full milk and half milk. Obviously my mother chose for me to have the full and it was horrible! Basically as thick as a yogurt it made me sick! Me and my dad had to wait for Jowan to come back but he forgot and wasted half an hour of our time. By 8 o'clock we were getting ready for school although that only started at 8:30. A bit of languages, speed writing and research was to do (a bit of stuff happened later in the day as well). Then we had to leave our accomodation at 11.

We drove off to vindeln’s most iconic area which turns out to be it's white river. It was extremely strong and walking along a suspension bridge with about a foot of play sketchy for sure. But must i say what really edged my nerves out was the flipping midges. Thousands swarming over me as I tried to take a photo! Hateful I have become of these now known beasts. Never will I venture anymore into the depths of the creatures. The bridge led to a largish island about 2km^2. We had a bit of a walk round there to spend some time while we waited for the time to come when we could check in to the next place. We finished our walk and avoided the midges luckily. Then we went on our short journey to the next accomodation.

Our drive was prolonged with the excessive roadworks enduring the road which we were spending 10km on. It was a very long, dodgy, bumpy route. It was all gravel and extreme bumps and if we had been keeping anywhere near the speed limit we would've had some air. After the two hours extended route with a bit of lunch in the middle, we had just reached 100000 on our tachometer up from the 92500 from the start of the trip. At 3 was our deadline/ opening time to get in our cottage type thing. I set the bike out of the car and went off for a little cycle. I was under 5 minutes into my journey when I saw two boys on cheapish hardtails going down a mild section. Ahead of them I could see a group of mountain bikers and I couldn't figure out they're ability. I followed them for a bit to see if they knew where the juicy stuff is. But it began to be clear that they were only heading home. So I turned back disappointed up the hill I just cruised down to follow them. I ended up heading up and spotted the entrance to where the homeowner had speculated the trails were. It was a very sandy track up with wheel spins all round. It didn't look good from there but as I reached the top I saw a trail that was ending or started. These were supposed to be black horse trails but suited downhill mtb riders very much. But the rocky uphill stuff was just so challenging. Since I couldn't find the start of any of these trails I just made my way up one with a nice steep section. Before that I had bounded down the fireroad and jibbed about on that. Only then did I put my Strava on. The trails were running extremely slow so must i say they were not meant for bikes. Better than nothing or riding by the fjord in Norway. My most regretful decision of the day was then going all the way down the fireroad and having to come back up again. Such a long, sandy, angerful track I have no idea why horses would want to walk on it. I had then to head home because I had to do a massive shop before Finland. We headed to a massive supermarket in the nearby city of skelleftea. Never heard of it but it was such a sizeable place. Now, in Sweden over 14s can buy beer and drink it only if it contains under 2.25% alcohol. I was a true winner there although anything under that is not of the best tastes. Although much of my beers have been cheap under 70p stuff which remains extremely cheap considering there is 25% vat on everything and importing is not cheap. Hopefully in a eastern European country there should be something for me. We headed back from the supermarket but we could see dark looming clouds right ahead of us. Only when we got back was a massive boom that felt like a number three magnitude earthquake but only for seconds. The ground really vibrated from there on when it striked. You could tell all these bolts were hitting the ground. Meh well it's not the best of evenings, something unspoken of and writing the blog and doing the dishes made my evening dull and wasteful. Hopefully another blog won't come from me until the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn when then I will get my lens cap, nice new camera strap and cables plus nd, UV filters. Can't wait...

Published on Friday 15 June 2018

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