Today was “getting to know each other” day, by way of a treasure hunt on bicycles.

We took a couple of pre-booked boats from Strömstad to South Koster island. It was windy and a bit cold, but the views were nice.

On South Koster, we all got bikes and went off on a treasure hunt kind of thing. We’d all been divided into teams of about 8 people beforehand, with a mixture of people in each team, both geographically and departmentally. There was a website with a map, and markers on the map denoting places where we would do various tasks. The tasks were predictably mostly quite cringeworthy. “Take a photo of your team to illustrate teamwork.” “Record a team cheer.” “Answer this quiz with questions about Evidi.”

There wasn’t much time to complete the tasks; our team was half an hour late for lunch and still didn’t manage to get all of them. Hence the lack of photos. I guess you could say that a little bit of teambuilding happened? We spoke to each other, but didn’t have an awful lot of time for that either.

Lunch was at Kläpphagen, which at least served better vegetarian fare than Strömstad Spa, although that bar was very low. (Yesterday’s dinner at Strömstad Spa had a barbecue theme. The meat-eaters got at least four kinds of grilled meat. The vegetarians got the meat-eaters’ side orders: potatoes, corn on the cob, sallad. That’s it.) This place did have a delicious vegetarian dish, but I ended up eating salmon because there was no vegetarian protein. Seriously, are these people all living in the last century?

Got back on the boats and were ferried back to Strömstad. Lovely views again. And not a drop of rain! The weather forecast promised heavy rain off and on through the day, and I had been mentally preparing for a grim day out. But somehow we managed to miss all of the rain. There was none of it while we were on the boats out, none while we biked. Then a serious downpour while we were eating, which was over before lunch was over. No rain on the way back; pouring rain again in the evening.