Polferries from Gdansk to Sweden

Back home after 19 totally fantastic days on the road. Not a single drop of rain, nice and sunny weather every day after our visit to Auschwitz which I think had the best possible weather to get the right feeling of the horrible place (grey and misty). Even when we got home to Sweden today the sun was shining. Again! We’ve had so much fun and have met so many nice and friendly people and I’m just totally happy! Now back to work and start planning for the next journey somewhere sometime…

I will post some more pictures here the following days to catch up with the past days of traveling and maybe some more. There has been long days on the bikes the last days and not too much spare time to sit by the computer. Especially not on the ferry last night because the sea was very rough and I actually started to feel a little sick, but after a sea-sick pill and a glass of wine I was back in business :). Dead tired though so the last night was not much of a party.

Jan wrote something about the horrible food on the ferry we had for dinner last night… well take a look at what they served for breakfast!! Yikes.

Well this is only decoration in the diner, thank god…

Approaching Nynäshamn – the Polferrys destination is 50-60 km south of Stockholm City. Nice weather and sunny even in Sweden! 🙂 A little colder though but not bad, about 16 degrees celsius today.

First stop in Sweden was my house, Jan has another 10 km home so this is where we said bye bye. When we left that friday almost 3 weeks ago I forgot to set my trip meter at home but I remembered it halfway to the ferry in Nynäshamn so I zero’ed it on the road. The strange co-incidence is that when we passed the exact same spot today my meter turned to 5000 km sharp! My total milage on this trip ended up at 5030 kilometers. Pretty good I must say and I’m so happy my bike was cooperative with me all the time – I mean, it IS a Harley after all… 😉

…more later
//Tina

First day of the trip….

Or second, really, since we left yesterday evening on the ferry to Gdansk. But first day riding after arriving to Poland. Calm night on the ferry. Hardly no wind at all so a comfortable ride. Too many beers last night tho. Was tired today in the saddle. The ferry was a combined cargo-/passenger ship with mostly truck drivers aboard. Smallest tax free shop I´ve seen in my whole life. Like a closet almost. Or three closets. But not much bigger than that. We did not buy anything.

A view from the ship rather soon after leaving Nynäshamn. Beautiful evening.

We arrived to Gdansk at 1 o´clock and was through customs in no time. They didn´t even look at us as we passed through on the bikes but two police officers stared at Tina when we passed them. I´m rather certain that they are not very used to female Harley riders. They totally ignored me tho. Drove south all day and saw the regular whores standing along the motorway. Really nice weather. Fine day.

Petrol station in Poland.

Found a hotel when it got dark around 7.30. Will be a interesting day tomorrow. We´ll try to leave the hotel not too late and drive the reminding 320 kilometers to one of the most horrible places on the planet. Auschwitz. Always hard to see the evil deeds humans can do to one another. We humans can totally fuck things up every once in awhile. And then we´ll continue to the rather famous salt mine in Wieliczka just east of Krakow after Auschwitz. And we hope to sleep in Zakopane near the Slovakian border tomorrow night. That´s the plan and we´ll see how things work out. Might have to change the plans as things tend to happen when out traveling. Will be a long day anyway. More later.

Cheers//Jan

On our way to Poland

We came to Nynäshamn in good time for the boat, nice but short ride from Stockholm in nice weather.
Very helpfull staff on the car deck on Polferries, they actually tied the bikes for us, nice. Now time for dinner, hopefully they have someting ateable on this boat, it’s definitively Polish cuisine which is new at least to me… When we arrived to the ferry terminal we had this beauty as company 🙂 //Tina