Midsummer in Jonkoping

Thursday morning (6/21/12) was beautiful. We decided to camp on the edge of one of the lake we rode by and waking up to the sun over the lake is a nice way to start any day. We packed up our stuff and started on doing what we do best, getting breakfast at awesome little cafes. Most of the food i get is in pastry cases ordered by a lot of finger pointing. We sat and slowly ate our food and used the restroom to brush our teeth and all the fun morning things. Afterwards we started our ride. More lakes and forest of course.

see what i mean by beautiful?

 We put in about 60 miles with our normal amount of breaks for food and taking pictures for you guys back home, along with a huge hill that had me going around 35 mph. Around mile 55 my right knee started giving me some problems. I had this problem back home and knew i wasn't going to be able to ride much further, but i kept on pushing. The plan was to hit Jonkkoping and take a train to spend the Midsummer (a nation wide Swedish holiday that we knew very little about) in Gothenburg. Just a lot of drinking and eating pickled fish. We got to the top of this hill and in front of us was this amazing sight. A city built around this huge lake and most of it was on a hill. A massive massive childish grin making slightly arousing hill. We flew down this hill and it was the best part of the trip up to date. It was a little over a mile long and on either side of you is this beautiful city and in front of you is a huge lake. Jonkoping is better then Stockholm in my mind. We took a little break after hitting the bottom of the hill and asked someone how to get to the train station. When we got there we are informed that a straight train from here to Gothenborg was coming in about an hour. Only thing was that they did allow bikes.

We went to the tourist information center and asked about hostels. She said there is one that's about Fifty dollars and one she didnt know about. We didn't feel like shelling out $50 a person so we went to the one she didnt know about. This whole doing things by ear wasn't going that great. When we got to the hotel they told us they had rooms for 1 night and it would only cost us $30 a person. 30 for a hotel with a water hole and Frisbee golf course. If you know me at all you know I love some frolf.

                                     

We opened up the hotel room door and it put us all in a great mood. We decided Jonkoping will be our home for Midsummer. Unfortunately everyone leaves the big cities to go out to the county for Midsummer, but we didnt care. We had Tv, Internet, showers (you remember how much we like those) and BEDS. Soft cheap beds.

outiside the hotel

We took it pretty easy the first night, but the next day we went out on the pier for a nice pizza breakfast and then spent the rest of the day lounging on the beaches and playing frolf and relaxing. Everyone we asked about things to do durring Midsummer told us about one bar. Oleery's pub. We went there and when we ordered our first beer an Aussie walked up and started talking to us. Being an american here kind of makes us special. He was with a study group for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" books and they were with some french guys also doing a study group. We drank with the 15 of them till god knows when. I remember the bar being kind of empty then all of a sudden its full and im doing the C-walk and shuffle to techno and talking to someone about how amazing the Notebook is, riding our bikes back to the closed hotel and camping. A very good night. Hope you all enjoyed the read and if you get a chance get your ass to Jonkoping! No crashes or accidents yet so keep on playing the game! Next stop is Copenhagen in about 4 days.

I threw my frisbee in the water and had to get it.