Thursday, July 11, 2019

July 1 Day 18 Cruise: Stockholm


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Stockholm is located on a series of islands protected by nearly a hundred miles of additional islands.  Rather than waking up already in the port, we were still winding our way along the often narrow channels. It was a beautiful blue sky day so the last time before the port were beautiful.


We arrived at Stockholm both still feeling quite under the weather with a cold. By this time Dick was also sick. We made a decision to try one of the hop-on-hop-off buses that operate throughout any of the parts. This allowed around to our narrated overview of the city perfect. We were pretty low energy, so we were happy to passively soak in some of the lovely city on islands: Stockholm.


We were much less concerned about trying to cram everything in knowing another two weeks we would be back for a couple of nice nights on our own staying in the old town Stockholm.


The main goal of the day was to get to the main train station, and purchase train tickets from Umea, Sweden down to Stockholm on July 15th. This will follow a visit with friends in northern Sweden. We decided to do this in person rather than try to do it online. As it turned out, it was pretty complicated and we were glad to pay a small fee to have the person help figure out our tickets and get it printed. Success.


We completed our hop-on-hop-off (with little hopping!) and then were back at the ship. We asked ourselves the question if we had enough energy to go do any of the tourist events onboard or off. The answer: no. Instead we rested for a bit and then were pleased to go out on the deck and listen to a goodly amount of been narration by the tour people about the Swedish arpeggio islands. There are an amazing amount of islands, and it was really a delight to sit out on the deck. There are many little small villages and fishing hearts and summer cottages. It was beautiful.! Oh, then it was after dinner and to bed early again.


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