Via Helsingborg to the northernmost point of the trip - and a pancake buffet [Part 3]

The size of the Öresund Bridge

With the best weather, I got up around 09:00 on the third day of the tour with slightly sore muscles. After a short breakfast, I went swimming in the Öresund and got ready to cover the route to my destination for the day, Helsingborg. After packing up my tent, however, I went back once more to the Öresund Bridge​ to explore it from far away with my drone (larger metal structures are very bad for the radio connection and IMUs inside the drone).

Once I was in the air, the true size of the structure only then became clear to me: with its 50 km/h and 20 minutes of flight time, my Mavic Pro couldn't even make it halfway across the bridge.

On top of that, there were strong winds and even stronger gusts that made me break a sweat despite my 100 flight hours across 550 flights: after 21 minutes and a critical 11% battery remaining, I landed again after seven kilometers of flight distance, happy to still have my drone - if the wind had shifted on the way back, the whole thing probably would have ended in a water landing.

Even in the time-lapse video along the bridge, you can clearly see the gusts when the camera shakes a little - that only happens when the drone is overloaded by a gust and can no longer compensate enough to maintain its speed):

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After this unintentionally effective wake-up call, I said goodbye to Malmö and got on my bike to tackle the journey to the northernmost point of the tour. Along wonderful Scandinavian bike paths, the route followed the coast through smaller villages and towns where Pippi Longstocking could easily have lived too.

Around lunchtime, after the first 35 kilometers, I spontaneously stopped at "Farmor Annas Matstuga," a pancake buffet restaurant. Even though I hadn't looked into the restaurant beforehand and had simply found it because it was right by my cycling route, I was more than thrilled by what it offered. It's very rare for me to rate restaurants on Google, but in this case, leaving 5 stars felt like the minimum expression of my gratitude.

The restaurant really is a great tip, and eating there is a treat - but it's only open on weekends (at least in the off-season).

After a tasty boost, I continued toward Helsingborg - the next 50 kilometers there were uneventful as the weather kept getting cloudier. That weather, with the sky growing darker and darker, shifted from pleasant touring conditions to a threatening pre-thunderstorm atmosphere. I was very relieved when I pitched my tent on the coast of Helsingborg around 17:30. At the first drops, I first put my luggage into the tent, then very quickly myself as well. Seconds after I closed the rain-cover zipper, the thunderstorm that had been building for hours suddenly poured down over me and the tent. For about 20 minutes, the rain hammered down on me and my tent with incredible force, until suddenly the sun started shining again. That made it far too warm inside my tent, and it was now just before 19:00 - too early to spend the evening in one place and really too late to head farther north again.

However, the 42 kilometers to the next northern milestone were no longer manageable before sunset. But since I also had no idea how else to spend my evening, I decided to go for it anyway. I left my luggage in Helsingborg. At an average of 26 km/h, the estimated arrival time for Kullens fyr, a historic lighthouse near the small town of Mölle, quickly moved from 21:25 to 21:00 and then to 20:50. Sunset was forecast for 21:08 that day, so actually watching the sunset would still be possible! Motivated, I rode along empty roads and smaller forest sections that always had great bike paths and were also deserted (probably because of the earlier thunderstorm). In the end, I covered the 42 kilometers in about one hour and 50 minutes - so I arrived at the lighthouse at 20:54. At the very end of the ride, there was one more challenge up the hill to the lighthouse, which really pushed me - and afterward I was all the happier to have reached my goal.

Over the next hour, I enjoyed the sunset over the sea and the very beautiful surroundings. It got darker and darker, and with that the beam of light from the lighthouse became more and more visible:

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Around 22:00, I started the return trip south - it was slowly getting cold, and I wanted to be back in Helsingborg before midnight. On the way back, I couldn't enjoy the scenery without light, but after this day, the anticipation of sleep was more than enough to motivate me to keep up an average speed of 23 km/h.

After around 160 kilometers for the day (and a completely drained Apple Watch), I got back to my tent at 23:58. A little frozen and definitely tired, I was looking forward to eight hours of sleep so I could leave Sweden by ferry the next day.

Looking back, this evening trip was one of the most impressive experiences of the vacation - such amazing scenery, a magnificent destination, and lots of fun on the smooth-rolling bike thanks to the lack of luggage.