My Cycling For Libraries Puzzle, part 5
Sunday, May 29th
-Ströby school, Ströby Egede-
Woke up 6.30 -yes, and a frightening beeping of a low battery walkie-talkie had already interrupted the sleep of some of us poor devils some three hours earlier.
I went for jogging and to smell the air -the cyclists didn't need anymore rain yet. Saturday had been pretty cold and rainy.
We had a crew talk while having breakfast (Pasi and Tossu were satisfied cause we could use the kitchen class of the school) and we also got valuable tips from Claudia. At 9.30 a briefing was held for all participants, we felt like politicians standing on a stage of the lunch room. Feelings were still expecting, no one didn't yet know how funny and lovely the trip would turn. The number of cyclists increased when Lauri hopped in.
I helped the kitchen crew to do the dishes, Antti, Panu and Ate cleaned the corridors of the school. First noticed forgotten thing: the keys to the school were left in Jukka's pocket, I hope he's mailed them back.
We found -as agreed with Mace- a breathtaking place for coffee break, the Mandehoved nature center. The views were spectacular, but also it was high time to have a pit stop...
Mace also showed his invention, the Real Eco Coffee Mug
With kind help of Antti's GPS we easily agreed of the place for late lunch/early dinner. Pasi, Tossu and I drove to Store Heddinge to do some groceries. Luckily some stores were open, tho it was Sunday.
We found Vemmetofte Strand to be a really lovely place. The staff in the restaurant kindly gave us gallons of water for the soup when I promised our people would come and get coffee and ice cream at their place. A win-win situation. After erecting the kitchen tent I had the opportunity to cycle back a bit to meet the cyclists. Enjoyable eight kilometres.
Nothing really harmful had occurred during the trip, so everybody got their place in the soup line, some of us, incl. Bo, Sebastian and I went swimming to the shallow but clear water just behind the restaurant and a nice beach of light grey sand.
As you can see, the weather wasn't sunny at all yet... but water was warm (as always, in my opinion).
We had a pleasant surprise at the place of accommodation (Mace is not _that_ eager to share all information in advance...), I knew it would also be a kind of school, but Bosei Sports Academy was absolutely great. We were welcomed with extraordinary courtesy by the local sensei. Rooms for two, dinner, showers, pool, etc. It started to rain again when we arrived with the vans, but cyclists didn't get soaking wet this time, and the awareness of having dinner by the table and a decent bed made everybody happy, I guess.
For a pre-happening for the night Ella and Katie hosted an Skype-folksong-contact to Los Angeles before we entered the dinner room.
After an excellent chili con/sin carne -dinner we had the first official unofficial talk. The theme for the day was immigrants in libraries -as patrons, but especially as workers. We talked for good two hours. A minor after party was held in one dorm lounge, including relaxing the muscles and some neck massage, Arto taking initiative there.
Time to sleep.
