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SWE/NOR FINAL DAY Self Guided Walking Tour in Stockholm (WD3)

FINAL DAY 8/23/17 Wed

Today we decided to check out southern Stockholm south of Gamla Stan (Old Town)

Few things that we noticed:

  • No drinking fountains anywhere
  • Public restrooms are non-existent, public malls have them for 10 Kronas (about 1.25 USD), we did find a free one and it wasn’t really managed at all.
  • People smoke
  • City is extremely bike friendly
  • Not as diverse as we were expecting
  • Scale of stores is much smaller
  • Everything is made of stone and granite from roads to buildings
  • Cars yield to people odd concept huh?
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SWE/NOR Self Guided Walking Tour in Stockholm (WD2)

8/22/17

Got approximately 9 hours of sleep and woke up at 7:30am, had breakfast at the mothership boat and we were off starting at 8:30am.

The tour added up to 30k steps and over 15miles by foot!

Proof!

All we did was walk around to parks, did some shopping, and ate food/drinks.

All pictures were taken with the iPhone 7 Plus

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SWE/NOR Travel Day continues in Stockholm (WD1)

Approaching 9pm Stockholm time and let’s get to some daily details!!

First flight MSP to JFK (Delayed 2hrs), then second connecting flight never even made it to JFK due to maintenance so we waited on a plane from Africa! So another 2hrs we waited and finally took off at 7:26pm (Originally supposed to fly out at 5:30pm).

During the long flight we ended up watching two to three movies over the course of the night. Watch Masterminds if you haven’t yet. Dinner was chicken cordon bleu, or shrimp salad. ICING on the cake was free drinks all night long so we got wine, two bottles of scotch, and one bottle of Bailey’s.

WE GOT OUR BAGS during our connection! I was worried about this since the delay was huge. Love Delta and their tracking tool.

Today’s weather was AMAZING at 65F Partly Cloudy, arrived at 8:45am, and had to wait in Arlanda’s Custom line which was inefficient! The connection from Arlanda to Stockholm was incredibly easy, find the train kiosk machine, stick in CC and you are on your way. Pickup occurs every 10-15 minutes and the trains haul (20 minute trip) COST 380NOK for 2 people (divide by 8 to convert to USD).

Our hotel will be in the Rygerfjord which results in a 1.3 mile hike from the train station.

One of the most astonishing things I’ve noticed is the number of people biking from point a to point b. It was truly astonishing.