Bike trip to Roxen Lake

Last sunday (yep, it's been almost a week… I know -_- ), a bunch of exchange students and I took our bicycles to visit the city Berg, and to see the Roxen lake. We were something like 30 people, despite the quite bad weather. Some will say "swedish weather"… I don't know :)

Berg is a small village at 15km in north of Linköping. Its beautiful church from the XIth century has been a appreciate stop on our way to the lake. We have been told about its history by a retired man from the village, who really likes this place. The visit was then very interesting. This church is surrounded by a typical swedish cemetery: full of greeness, with a lot of trees and bushes… definitely different from the french cemeteries!

Berg cemetery… How quiet!

 After the visit of the church (and the picnic), we went to the "touristic" part of Berg: it's marina. The marina is located on the Gota Canal, a few dozen meters above the level of the Roxen lake. The ships can reach the lake by a serie of six or seven locks. We had the chance to see the departure of a sailing fish to the Roxen lake… it took it some time to move from the marina to the lake!

Sailing ship on its way to Roxen lake

Lock overflow

Then we took a bath in the lake (well, ok, only two of us did it :), the water was kind of warm actually! Finally we biked back to Linköping, and of course we stopped at Ikea for a typical swedish fika. Där äter ni en kanelbulle med ett kaffe!  :')