We arrived in Stockholm after 21 hours of travelling through three airports without missing a beat. Our luggage arrived when we did and we were delighted to find that Stockholm’s airport was very small. It was more the size of Saskatoon or Winnipeg’s airports. We figured out how to catch the express train into town and had a no stress 20 minute train ride into town. I wish we had something like this in Edmonton!

We were told our hotel was only about 500 meters from the train station so, with map in hand, we confidently struck out to find a place to nap. Of course, being very tired and map impaired, we turned right instead of left and it was only after 20 minutes of walking on the right street that we realized we were going the wrong direction. Thank goodness for rolling suitcases and paved sidewalks. We turned around and had no difficulty finding our hotel on our second try. It is a cute little room close to everything.

We crashed for a few hours nap and then went to see some of the sites. We walked along one of the canals and encountered some local wild life – groups of men drinking beer in the park on one side of the path and groups of ducks on the other. We went down to the Old Town and got ourselves oriented before going to seek food. I recognized some of the buildings but we didn’t get close – that is for tomorrow. 

I have been practicing my Swedish by reading every sign I see to Dale. He is patient cause he loves me. I tried to order our meal in Swedish and our server was very kind. She tended to answer me in

English but I assumed it was because she knew Dale didn’t speak Swedish and not because I was butchering the language. I got stuck trying to order item #5 because I couldn’t remember the Swedish word for number. She waited while I tried to figure it out then, when I asked she said the word was nummer! she had figured out what I wanted long before I figured out how to say it.

To

Tomorrow is either harbour boat tour day or museum day – depends what museums are closed on Mondays!