Stockholm is a great city. We camped up and got the T-Bana into town, then we bought a couple of Stockholm cards which pretty much meant we could go anywhere for free for 24 hours. So getting value for money, we have done lots of things - Boat tour(s), Vasa Museum, Aquarium, Theme Park, Cathedral, Royal Palace state rooms and treasury and a few other bits...
The Vasa is worth commenting on. It's a boat that they raised from the seabed after 333 years and it's really well preserved. Ignoramus that I am (in fact WE are, cos Fran didn't know either), we thought it was some small viking vessel or something, nothing too special. Well, it's about 200 feet long and was a battleship of it's time when Sweden was fighting with Poland. It sank on it's maiden voyage, 1500 metres from leaving the dock!! Anyway, it's pretty cool and the museum is well worth it.
We're now heading back down Sweden, on our way to Copenhagen, and tonight we are moored up on the Island of Oland, which is where a lot of the Swedes take their summer holiday. I have stood in the baltic and waved across towards Riga for Pete, who I realise is not there on a Sunday, and that there's no line of sight either, but the thought counts.
Here's another picture for Lara too - we found one of Rufus' younger sisters today and they shared a photographic moment or two ;-)
There was a storm threatening to blow through but it sort of passed a bit to the north leaving some really impressive skies. But that's gone now, so I'm going for a run - to leave the laptop for Fran to maybe add some messages? TTFN.
Just to let you know I was in Riga on Sunday and I was working!
ReplyDeleteThanks for waving.