Then, we settled in for a lovely six-hour train ride south in Sweden down to the capital city of Stockholm. The train ride was a time for Patti to catch a little rest, and for Dick to drink in all of the scenery. He so enjoyed watching the trees, the water, changing landscape, the farms. He could also watch the train's speed on the speedometer at the front of the train car. It was a rainy, but nice day for a medium length train trip. The time went by quite quickly and soon we were pulling into Stockholm.
We had been in that train station before, so it was somewhat familiar, but we had to figure out how to get to our Airbnb about 2 km away from the station. There was a metro, there were buses, we could’ve taken Uber, but we decided why not walk? That was going be not that far, and with any of the other modes of transportation we would still have to walk a ways anyway. So we headed out walking. The farther we walked, the harder it rained. So we powered on through the increasingly hard rain walking through construction, over bridges, and went into the old town island of Stockholm. Once we got into the narrower streets in old town, we were getting less wet. We finally found our building, (with a Burger King on the corner,) and we were very happy to have arrived.
Our Airbnb host had sent very detailed instructions about how to use a variety of different lock key codes to get into the building, which was a little bit of a challenge, but we appreciated the detailed instructions. Then trudged up four flights of stairs to our loft apartment. We were so glad to get there and get out of the rain.
We had in a very smart move bought some delicious carry out food at the train station. So we settled in for the next 18 hours resting, drying out, eating food and getting some sleep.
Although we had tentatively thought we might do some exploring that evening, It was not in the cards. Hello Stockholm, see you tomorrow.
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