Finally on the road again!

(Beijing, China, 4th of January 2017)

At last, the day finally came when it was time to get back out into the world again. We have been home in Sweden for three weeks and have celebrated Christmas and New Years Eve. We have had time to spend time with family and friends and now we are ready for new adventures. This time we are going to New Zealand and Australia and we are bringing our racing bikes.

We have packaged all our luggage in newly purchased bicycle panniers. This will be the first time we cycle with luggage and given that we are not particularly well trained right now, after 3,5 months without cycling in India, it will be exciting to see how it goes. The only preparation we have made is that we have been doing yoga, running and swimming in India, and participating in fifteen spinning classes during our weeks in Sweden.

Our flight departed from Kastrup at four o’clock in the afternoon and we got pushed all the way to the airport by our daughter Moa. At Kastrup we visited our friend Karin in the SAS lounge where we had a beer and ate a little while waiting for our flight´s departure.

Our first destination was north,to Stockholm, where we had a short stop before continuing on to Beijing with Air China. We got food almost immediately after take off and it was packed in Sweden – one last really good Swedish meal consisting of salmon, potatoes and a tasty sauce. Yummi! Beijing is a very large and modern airport with very comfortable seating. If the temperature just had been a bit higher, it really would have had a top grade.

/ Christel