// Skellefteå, Sweden

Edvard Appelberg

I like to explore new locations by bicycle and write down what happens along the road. So far that adds up to across Italy, Sweden and Lofoten: a tent, more climbing than planned, and a lot of people I would never have met through a car or train window.

Check out my adventures!

Edvard Appelberg with his bike at Niagara Falls
km ridden
metres climbed
days spent on the road
journeys, so far

// About me

Curious. Analytic. Adventurous.

Portrait of Edvard Appelberg

Welcome to my homebuilt website. I am a Swede in my mid-twenties with an appetite for sports and exploring places I have not seen yet, preferably both at once. I live in Skellefteå, Sweden, where I spend my working days analysing electricity markets. The rest of the time goes to training, to learning something new (a language, a dish, or how to build a site like this one), and to working out where to ride next.

I ride because a bicycle moves at exactly the right speed: fast enough to cross a country, slow enough to feel it. There are no sponsors behind any of this and no predetermined goal: the journeys run on curiosity alone… and on gelato. If you want the long version, each trip has its own page, and the journal has it day by day.

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”

Ernest Hemingway

// The trips

Journeys

Mediterranean coastline along the Italy 2026 route

2026 · Italy

Italy 2026

Forty day loop across Southern Italy, by way of Liguria, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and the whole length of the mainland, ridden to raise money for Swedish brain research.

Edvard at Smygehuk, the southernmost point of Sweden

2024 · Sweden

Sweden 2024

The entire length of Sweden and onward into Lofoten, from the southern tip at Smygehuk to the Arctic islands. A month of west coast, forests and mountains.

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2027–2028 · Undecided

The next one

The Balkans to Istanbul, a race down Patagonia, Greece in Greek, all in on France, or the Atlas in the middle of the Swedish winter. Five candidates, nothing booked.

See the shortlist →

“Travelling by bicycle is slow enough that you're immersed in your surroundings and can stop wherever you like, and at the same time fast enough that you can get a very long way in a couple of days. It is the most immersive way to travel.”

Riding for brain research

The Italy 2026 ride collected money for Hjärnfonden, the Swedish Brain Research Fund. The collection is still open, and every krona goes straight to the fund.

  Raised