June 14, 2004 - Stockholm

     Today was a travel day.  After a final Danish breakfast in the hotel, we hauled our overloaded bags a block and a half to the train station and successfully identified and boarded a train to the airport.  It stops directly beneathe the terminal, so a short elevator ride puts you at the check-in counter.  It all went so quickly, we got to spend some time in the SAS Lounge before hiking to our gate--passing through an entire shopping mall on the way.  Though the flight was delayed in departure, it was a smooth one hour flight to Country 2: Sweden.

     We had read that we could take an express train directly from the Stockholm airport to terminal two blocks from our hotel.  The train was wonderful but the two blocks was. . .well it was a ten-minute walk from everyone we asked.  However, we arrived in good shape and were checked in to a larger, quieter, more modern room than the one we left in Copenhagen.  Sheila was so jazzed, she suggested we take an afternoon bus tour of the city.  The tour was fine except:
1. It was outrageously expensive.  (Thanks, W, for destroying the dollar.)
2. The bus was full to capacity.
3. It rained heavily enough during much of it that we couldn't see.
4. The recorded comments were, of course, oblivious to the rain and the traffic.
5. Both Sheila and I kept dozing off.

     Still, we saw a bunch of the city, got some sense of it, and here are a few pics.
bus
That's our bus, in back of King Gustav.
palace
The royal palace
filigree
Sheila dubbed this the filigree-steeple
church which seems apt.
 pedestrian mall
Took this while walking back to the hotel

     But, I've saved the best for last, the hotel has free WiFi on the business center floor.  In fact it's quite comfortable and spacious there, and I may even be able to upload some trip files before the end of the month.


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