Due to new incompatibility between my previously-used blog site and my iPad, I’ll need to post to this plain Blogspot site for this trip. My apologies for the change.
My trip to Stockholm began at 10 a.m. Pacific Time with a bus and light rail ride to SeaTac Airport. The IcelandAir flight from SeaTac to Reykjavik was quite empty and on time. There were only 10 people in the back 9 rows of the airplane with me, and I had the whole row to myself. But I couldn’t sleep, so I spent the 7 hours reading, eating, and just trying to sleep.
The fascinating thing was the route the airplane flew. It took us across Canada, north of Hudson’s Bay, to Reykjavik, all above the line of darkness. So even though we flew through nighttime hours, the sun shone the whole time. When we landed in Iceland, it was overcast and cool at 5:30 a.m.
The next flight was shorter, just 2 hours and 45 minutes to Stockholm. This plane was full. Although it was late taking off, it made up some time in flight, so I arrived only about 15 minutes later than scheduled.
I met Gary and the kids just outside the customs exit after their later arrival. We took a taxi through the rush hour highways from the airport to the Hilton Stockholm Slussen, which is downtown near Gamla Stan. Our 3 rooms are lovely, with views of the city, and we each had a basket of fruit waiting in the room.
We ate dinner at a nearby restaurant, sampling some traditional Swedish food for the first time with some Pytt I Panna and herring. Then we walked around Gamla Stan in the sunshine around 8:30 p.m. The sun set at 10 p.m. and we went to sleep not long after, trying to recover from the trip.
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