Bikeride to the southern part of the city

Instead of sitting inside the whole day, we decided to take a bike ride along the river to the southeast part of Umeå. As always when going somewhere else in the city, you get an easy start downhill, our apartment is located in the highest parts of town.
You got nice views when looking towards downtown of Umeå.
We continued along Umeälven, with Kolbäcksbron south of us, the best-looking bridge over the river.
We then stopped at a shopping center, where the biggest food store in town is located as well. We bought some lunch and enjoyed it next to the river, who would like to sit inside this nice spring day?
For the bike ride back home we took another bike path, to explore other parts of the town. In total we biked over 10 km today, but we still have several bike rides to do until we've covered the 170 km bike paths present in Umeå. Yes, Umeå is a bike friendly town with bike paths in many directions and next to all main roads. In some parts of the city you share the wide sidewalks with pedestrians.
Today is the first day with really warm weather (~15C), nice to really feel the spring in the air. Being outside without a jacket/coat is definitively a spring sign.
Back home it was time for some rest in the sun. Since our balcony (it is really on the first floor, but we call it our balcony) is on the north side, we brought two chairs to the south side of the house. Sitting just next to our office window, you almost thought it was early summer. But the view to the south reminded you that late April up here in the north still means piles of snow here and there.
Today was the first day we saw more of spring flowers, on the south side of houses. Since a lot of the snow melted the last week, the lawn is still not green.