For about $10, we rented bicycles for an entire 24 hour period. For little "O" this means that one may never dismount their bicycle and that we are to ride them everywhere. No problem if you are riding on a flat surface but we're in Visby, home of the cobble stone streets and an elevation that starts at sea-level and then rises to this huge cliff on top of the walled city. Oh and lets not forget that we are in the middle of a heat wave that even has the locals complaining. After about an hour or so, my giddy-up got up and went. It was time to intervene with a suggestion, "Why not ride along the sea coast bike road?"
Nothing made me happier than when this sweet boy agreed with much enthusiasm.
So off we went to see what we could discover.
First up, a family of swans. Who were so very sweet. "Do you know they mate for life mom? Just like humans."
We continued on past beautiful coastal scenes on the left and incredible clifts on the right.
We arrived at a little fishing village.
We had rode 5 kilometres and so it was time to turn around and go back to Visby.
As we returned to Visby a long line of bicycles with little wagons on the back of their bicycles were getting ready to start by the looks of it, a very long journey.
"Where are you going? Little O asked.
"We are biking around the entire island and staying in little huts in the evenings." Informed the biker papa.
"How many days does it take to go around the island?"
"Oh about 4 days if you don't stop too much but as you can see we have many children with us so it will take about a week."
Boy, that caught his attention. His eyes were all sparkly with the notion of biking around the whole island. "Can we do it today mom? or should we put it on our life list?"
Without a moments hesitation I said,"Life List!"
So with that idea we said good bye to our newly made biking friends.
and look forward to a ride around the island one day. One day we I get a loveseat for my bicycle.;)
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