{"id":4682,"date":"2025-08-03T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:20:24","slug":"best-of-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/best-of-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"

.8 km today to arrive at our next hotel. Despite (or perhaps because of) adjusting our schedule around, we ended up with two nights in Oskarshamn, but our hotel didn’t have a vacancy for our additional night.<\/p>\n

After storing our luggage temporarily at hotel #1, we walked into town to visit the Maritime Museum and the D\u00f6derhultarn Museum, both conveniently located in the local library.<\/p>\n

Axel Robert Petersson (1868-1925) was known during his lifetime as D\u00f6derhultarn. Axel was one of Sweden’s most famous wood artists, and lived in Oskarshamn.<\/p>\n

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Before and after the bar<\/p>\n

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We also found this amazing 3D globe on the library. I want one!<\/p>\n

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After that we stopped at a market and had lunch in the church yard. Walking back, artists have painted murals on the sides of many of the buildings.<\/p>\n

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The reasonably-priced accomodation we relocated to was purchased and remodeled by the formerly Syrian owner only a few months ago. The building that is also the local train station. There are only three rooms, if only because they’re huge.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

This is about a third of the room. Our room has an echo! There’s also a kitchen and shared bath. The shared bath is less of a problem for a place with only three rooms.<\/p>\n

We had dinner at the restaurant below our room (with the same owner). As we ate, today’s ferry from Gotland arrived. We had a dinner show of semis, cars (and cyclists) unloading and loading. Hopefully we now know the exact process for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Having made it this far, I’ve gone ahead and made hostel reservations in Helsinki and Tallinn. Intermixed there are two nights on a ferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

.8 km today to arrive at our next hotel. Despite (or perhaps because of) adjusting our schedule around, we ended up with two nights in Oskarshamn, but our hotel didn’t have a vacancy for our additional night. After storing our luggage temporarily at hotel #1, we walked into town to visit the Maritime Museum and … Continue reading “Best of intentions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}