Yesterday a small village 45 minutes drive north of our place recorded the hottest temperature in Sweden since 1994,it was 34.5ºC. While Oziel and I spent most of the day in the air conditioned comfort of IKEA, it took us the better part of three hours to get there on a train with faulty airconditioning on a train line with faltering power. Getting home was worse – Sweden is not designed to handle “heat waves.”
Today started off somewhat similar to yesterday, so we wanted to go somewhere to escape the heat. Our experience the previous day lead us to conclude that the bus would provide a safer mode of transport.
Oziel found what appeared to be a secluded beach a couple of kilometres from a bus stop in the difficult to pronounce hamlet of Yngsjö, 35 minutes drive south from our place.
The bus was full leaving Kristianstad, but almost everyone got off in Åhus. By the time we made it Yngsjö, there were only five passengers left on the bus – and the other three were lost. So we were expecting to find the quiet and secluded location for which we had searched.
Our plan went somewhat awry. After walking through the sleeping hamlet and a pine forrest we arrived to a beach that made Bondi Beach look quiet and secluded. We have no idea from where everyone came!?
