This will be a picture intensive bulletin. we are in Sigtuna, about 60 km north of Stockholm. Apparently the oldest town in Sweden. We picked it as a close place to Stockholm as we thought that getting out of Stockholm by bike would be difficult. It was! lots of well marked cycle tracks that take you off into housing estates and then dump you. No moaning, the provision is miles better than the UK and these tracks, we think, are meant for locals.
Sigtuna turned out to be a wonderful place, but we won't go on about it.
Here are some pictures. We mentioned the tortuous route our ferry took through the islands, this is another ferry boat taken from ours as we approached the half way mark. We were both doing 40 km/hr at the time(my GPS). It's a crummy pic but it conveys the excitement.
Here are a batch of brides in St Petersburg
Here is Sarah retrieving some banana skins from someones post box which she thought was a litter bin.
For the haystack fans here is a Finnish haystack field
