Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After Jönköping, the Biketour stayed at Bossgården, a small farm on the country-side between Falköping and Tidaholm. One of the farm buildings was built in 1818 and still has a traditional reed roof, making the farm an official cultural heritage site. On the farm lives a small family with children, and some volunteers are around as well. There is a big vegetable garden that is being operated…

Continue reading

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Already before the tour I noticed a town called “Trollhättan” on the map. When I looked it up on Wikipedia to find out about what its name meant (it means Troll’s hat), I read the absurd story of the Trollhättan Falls. The city’s most iconic landmark and probably biggest tourist attraction are the Trollhättan Falls, a huge waterfall in the middle of the city where the river…

Continue reading

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The road into Jönköping was one giant downhill, and at  the bottom we arrived at the kulturhuset (http://kulturhusetjonkoping.se/). We were warmly welcomed with hot coffee (and hot showers!) and shown to our sleeping place for the next three nights, a studio room with wall mirrors. And the whole building was quite huge! When we were shown the sleeping room, there were two other bike tourers already in…

Continue reading

Tämä teksti on valitettavasti saatavilla vain kielillä: English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The first stop after Göteborg was the small village of Uddebo (http://uddebo.se/), home to around 300 people. A few years ago this small village was given new life when people from the city seeking alternative ways of living moved there, buying previously empty houses, fixing them up, and giving them new life. Since then, the village has grouped together more to start work on restoring a village…

Continue reading