A Special Thanks To Our New Host, and those who helped us along the way!!

We are now at Alicia Karpetsky's place in Paris. Needless to say... its quite nice of her to take the three most smelly men in all of France into her home!

here is a cute little picture of us with Alicia, thanks again you wonderful person you!

Can You Guess Where We Are?

Thats right! France and... we have reached Paris! Lets just say that France is a lot "hillier" than the other countries we've faced thus far, but we made it nonetheless.

Here is a short itinerary thus far of the trip:

1) July 13, Goteborg Sweden to Halmstad - 154km
2) July 14, Halmstad to Copenhagen Denmark - 165km
3) July 15, Copenhagen to Koge, Denmark - 60km
4) July 16, Koge to Vordingborg, Denmmark - 74km
5) July 17, Vordingborg to GroBenbrode, Germany - 81km
6) July 18 - Rest Day (Injuries)
7) July 19 Rest Day (Injuries)
8) July 20, GroBenbrode to Bad Segeberg, Germany - 96km
9) July 21, Bad Segeberg to Wischhafen, Germany - 99km
10) July 22, Wischhafen to Bremenvorde - 97km
11) July 23, RAIN AND PAIN, Bremenvorde to Cloppenborg (hotel :)) - 99km
12) July 24, Cloppenborg to Nordhorn - 94km
13) July 25, Nordhorn Utrecht - 196km TEN HOURS ON A BIKE PEOPLE
14) July 26, Utrecht to Breda - 87km
15) July 27, Breda to Herentals, Belgium- 73.4 km
16) July 28, Herentals to Wavre - 75.89km
17) July 29, Wevre to Hirson, France - 128km
18) July 30, Hirson to Mareuil-sur-Ourcq - 153km
19) July 31, Mareuil-sur-Ourcq to Paris! - 88.23 km

Total Kilmoeters thus far: 1795 km

We will now enjoy the weekend and shuffle off on Sunday... or perhaps we may never leave Paris, we'll see...

What You Have All Been Waiting For

Booking It Through Belgium

Here we are in the lovely town of Herentals, at Kris's friend Tim's house, where we were fortunate enough to have an actual bed to sleep in, and more importantly, some amazing Belgium beer! Oh come on now, we deserve some :)

We have kept up our renegade camping sites, because to be honest the thought of sleeping one more day in that tent that now smells like je ne sais quoi... i'd rather sleep under an art gallery as we have pictures of below...

Today begins our long "push to Paris," after we have a delicious breakfast here and recuperate a little more.

Renagade camping in Nordhorn

Woke up in the german city Nordhorn at an improvised camp site yesterday morning. Rain had been pouring the day before that and it was still going. As almost every morning we made coffee on our beloved camping stove under some roof along the way. After a half an hour of biking we crossed the dutch border as our bike computers counted the 1000th kilometer of the trip.

We had second lunch in Arnhem, or first dinner if you will, sat at the big square for yet another cup of coffee.

At 8:30 Kristoffers friend Gert-Jan met us on his bike to escort us the last 35 km to his apartment in Utrecht, where we have now spent the night after setting the record of 192 km on one day. Right now we are resting after breakfast, listening and singing along to Scotts guitarplaying. Next stop Belgium.

/KF

Yes - We Are Alive

Hello all, so its been a while since our last post. Why you may ask? Well lets just say that tiny German towns do not hold a wealth of internet cafes, let alone any at all.

We are alive! We decided to get hotel rooms last night: we biked all day through pouring rain, our bodies tired, and our clothes completey soaked, we arrived in a lovely little town called Cloppenburg, where we got rooms and sampled our last German beer before we reach the Netherlands! So much has happened in this week, and we have many pictures to come once again, however these internet cafes dont let you plug anything in (sad face)

For now though let me give you some of the highlights of the past week...

1) We accidentally went on the autoban, which led to the German police meeting us and escorting us off of it, and they were so nice!

2) I got my third flat tire... yay!

3) We camped in a church sight and a very determined black lab ate all our english muffins, which led to the family bringing us a lovely array of cheeses and meat on freshly baked bread... mmmmmm

4) Woke up that morning at the church and a really nice blacksmith made us hot coffee in his shop.

5) Took two ferrys, and afterwards ended up camping out on a local volunteer firedepartments land where we were greeted by a gentle giant of a german fireman who offerred us fresh fruit

6) Rain and Pain - Biked through terrential downpours (pardon all the grammatical errors by the way I am not adept at this whole German Keyboard) and finally arrived in Cloppenbourg, where we will now head out from to reach Holland!

Pictures of all these things will be up as soon as we stay with Kris´s friend in the Netherlands, where we will actually be able to plug in our cameras!

healthwise, we are all feeling fine, well except our butts are a bit sore, but what are you going to do?

PS. Sausages and curry = yum

Ciao Ciao

Convalescence: A Necessary Thing

Well, I like to give the bad news first: we are still in Daytona Beach aka Großenbrode

Good news: Kris´s knee feels a bit better, and Forshfvud`s health has improved! We just want to take one ore day to make sure that they are in tip top shape for biking tomorrow. So do not worry families, things are looking up, we just have to spend one more wonderful night here... which to say the least once again, is far from wonderful.

Keep you updated, in the meantime, we are well working on getting our tan equal among are upper bodies, since all of us have pretty bad biker tans... oh yes, there will be pictures

Cheers

Scott