Day 3 16/3/08 - Sweden

Stockholm -> London

Highlight

• Got a later start than planned, but the weather was much better today.
• Walked around the harbour to Vasamuseet. Quite a lot of tourists (must be very crowded in peak times, but the ship was absolutely magnificent.
• The displays were great and the architecture superb. It was definitely worth the money.
• Went to NH (the David Jones equivalent) to get excellent pastry and lingoberry bread.
• Ate lunch by the river, the sun was truly out then, but we didn’t have time to wonder to bjurgarden, although all the locals seemed to be heading there (with their walking sticks).
• Finally made it to Gamla Stan (old town). Reminds me of the hill town of Tuscany. Highlight was seeing Kungliga Slottet’s guards who don’t stand still and march randomly.
• Palace itself was the most spectacular.
• Made our way to Storkyrkan, one of the more interesting and pretty churches, whereas the Tyska Kyrkan was less interesting.
• Walked through the narrowest street of the old town, Marten Trotzings Grand.
• Most of the shops were closed because it was Sunday, but some were still open, with the most interesting being Ekovaruhuset, selling only organic stuff, with some very pretty organic clothes, and Kalika, selling toys including Pippi Longstocking dolls and finger puppets.
• Stocked up at the supermarket on herrings, salads, bread, gravalex before our flight.
• The Arlanda express was efficient, we hadn’t caught a late train yet in Stockholm.
• Airport was very boring though ,no Swedish shops like at the Revjavik airport, just international labels, and not interesting ones at that.

Food

• Connect Hotel breakfast:
  • bread
  • cucmber
  • tomato
  • pate
  • ham
  • cheese
  • hot chocolate
  • cappuccino
  • peach and apple yoghurt
• roll with pate
• NH cardamom scroll
• NH lingoberry bread
• salmon gravalex
• pickled herring
• prawn salad with dill
• prawn, mushroom salad with dill
• wafer chocolate bar