My travels - Norway on Bike 1997 - 13.day

15.August 1997

Only at morning I inquired that rest of group stay to sleep on a beach. I feel disappointed, because I went to sleep to tent so early. On other side I had dry sleeping bag unlike others. We continue today to Copenhagen. It was not in plans to visit this city but we spared some time. Our car stay in Helsingborg and we together with our bikes came over to Danish side. It took some time to find necessary money on ferry tickets, but after some mutual loans we found enough money. Ferry was full of people from Sweden with crates full of empty bottles. We didn't understand why. After a half hour we arrived on second side to Helsingør. There we sat on our bikes and went with good rate to Copenhagen. It was about 50 km from Helsingør, but we were good rested and we know that we do it without problems. Only weather was our enemy. It was too hot, and sometimes it was big problem to find place with shadow.

When we arrived to Copenhagen, we decided to visit The Little Mermaid statue. Jaro declared that he knows place where is the statue situated. But his orientation sense failed and we found statue only after many bad attempts. We visited also other places in city. But in this hot weather we decided to find some shadow in local park. There we rested lying on a grass. Before nightfall we returned back to Helsingør. We were so surprised, because only we were sober from all passengers on ferry. Others changed their empty bottles to full bottles with beer and they were all drunk. Prohibition in Sweden is good business for ferry operators in Sweden. In Helsingborg we fastened all bikes on top of van, and we continued to Trelleborg. There we arrived at night. We built our tents in camping where we spend night before 2 weeks. We slowly evaluated our holiday. We all were dedicated and we didn't want to return back. But this our last wish was not redeemable. It was our last night on the Scandinavian Peninsula, that was so hospitable to us.

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