Clive, Sean (UK), me, Johanna & Peter (Germany)
with medals after completing Vätternrundan.
Now I'm back at work, while most others are just starting their holidays. Ah well, I have a week in August to look forward to.
I completed Vätternrundan (300km bike ride) in record time of about 14h 30m, despite two punctures, rain and cold! The first puncture was half way up a hill about half way between Hammarsundsbro and Medevi. There was a very helpful family of spectators that helped me fix that one, but I should have changed the tyre as well as the tube, since the next puncture just about 10km from the finish was almost certainly caused by the fact that the tyre had stretched and wasn't sitting properly on the rim.
Up to the second puncture I was going to be just a few minutes over 14 hours.
I had the company of two guests from England and two from Germany.
Last week Margaret and I were in Båstad for the chamber music festival. We stayed in a stuga (cottage) in a place called Förslöv some 12km from Båstad. We were attracted to the festival because the Vertavo quartet from Norway were playing. They are our favourite quartet, and they didn't disappoint.
In the beginning of the week I was a little put off by the fact that we were amongst the youngest there! But I warmed to the people despite the fact that they speak Swedish on their own very special (i.e. difficult to understand) way. Except for the scramble for seats it was a very nice experience.
I was a bit irritated by the AC (air conditioning) in the car which didn't work despite the money spent on it before departure. I tried to get help locally but that only actually made it worse, so now I have a non functioning, probably empty of gas, AC.
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