Just after we got in to the hotel on the Friday evening we each had a shower, with the bathroom floor being flooded each time. I thought originally that it might have been due to the gap between the bath and the wall which allowed the water from the shower rose to flow down the wall onto the floor. But a check of the way the drainage worked showed that the problem was more fundamental than that.
After a walk around the neighbourhood, a sandwich for dinner, and a couple of beers for me, we crashed out at 6:30pm local time, or about 2:30am body clock time. Condition exhausted.
The next morning we were both awake about 5am local time. We were obviously going to take a few days to settle in to get our body clocks aligned properly. But we felt reasonably refreshed, while not exactly 100%.Prior to leaving Australia Robyn had purchased a 3-day Stockholm Pass and a 72-Hour public transport pass for both of us. Being her mother's daughter she had ever intention of us making the best use of the two passes over our time in Stockholm, so we hit the underground railway closest to the hotel a little before 8:30.
After that it seemed like we didn't stop all day: we strolled around Gamla Sta, the island that houses the Royal Palace and Houses of Parliament, then on a one and a half hour guided bus tour around central Stockholm, then back to look at the Royal Palace rooms, then on a walking tour of the Old Town (basically Gamla again) and then we finished off the day with a boat tour around the harbour for an hour or so.
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| Narrow streets of Old Town |
By the time we got back to the hotel it was about 5pm and we were exhausted. A bit of a rest, and then dinner in the hotel restaurant because we ere too tired to even think. Robyn settled for the Caesar salad, while I had the Elk burger. A first for me, and probably the last.
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