Sweden Day 6

Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Our last day of the competition had the convenience of the arena being just a 20 minute walk away from our campsite so we were able to do most of our packing in the morning before the event.  Also, because it is O-Ringen, all the arenas have huge shower areas so you can get clean right after running which is fantastic.  The open air mens’ shower area was positioned right below a café’s outdoor terrace area which would have made for an interesting cup of coffee for the unsuspecting tourist.

In excellent news, we managed to sell our tent for 100 Euros – we bought it for 250 and thought we would have to give it away but after sticking a for sale sign on it, we had a customer on the morning of the last day which was great – a win for both parties especially as we also gave away our electric grill and our air mattresses.

Once we had all run our courses and were finally all packed into the car we said goodbye to our orienteering friends, made one last stop at the local supermarket for the reasonably priced salad bar which has kept us happy for the last week..

..and drove almost 5 hours down to Copenhagen, checking into our hostel at around 8pm which gave us time for a quick stroll around the city and to get some dinner from a burger place. 

Back at the hotel we were able to finish off our washing so we could at least arrive in the Faroe Islands without half our gear smelling like a Swedish marsh! Our room was pretty small though, so it was quite an effort packing around each other the next morning.