Sunday
2PM left Rhinebeck, NY
530PM leave Newark airport (parked at FastTrack, will also consider ABC next time)Monday
730AM arrive Arlanda airport Stockholm
8AM – have bags and get taxi
830AM – arrive, say hi to Christina and see her spacious and bright penthouse co-op
10AM – leave to walk to Gamla Stan
see palace exterior
watch changing of guard (too many pictures)
lunch at Cafe Nova
acquire postcards
interior of Stockholm cathedral (highlight is St. George and the Dragon statue) +
530PM – walk to water across from city hall (Stadshuset), see boat hotels
730PM – arrive back at apartment
830PM -goto dinner with Christina
11-12 – chocolate, wine, and look at pictures with Christina
Tuesday
730AM wake up
830AM – subway to Central Terminal
915AM – bus (almost missed) to Nyashamn
11AM – ferry to Visby, Gotland
2:15PM – arrive Visby
3:00PM – register at Hotel Villa Borgen
4:00PM – visit several church ruins in the town, caffe mocha
8:00PM – dinner at upscale pizza restaurant – beer, pizza, salad, french fries
Wednesday
8:00AM wake up and continental breakfast (included) at hotel
10:00AM walk around Visby, see 10+ church ruins, botanical gardens, get caught inside a cathedral by college student (it was closed but not locked)
1:00PM get beer, cheese, cookies, and baguette at grocery store ($27)
2:00PM car rental office wasn’t open but tourist office called them, rent car from used car rental place 250k ($37) for 1 day – used Opel 2-door, manual transmission
3:00PM arrive at Jungfrau at Lickershamn
4:00PM ferry to Faro
4:15PM saw Ingram Bergman grave at Faro church
5:00PM drive around Faro to see Raukar Limestone formations
6:15PM ferry back to mainland Gotland
8:00PM dinner at crepe restaurant in Visby Visby Creperie & Logi
Thursday
6:30AM drive to ferry, drop off car
7-10AM ferry, 12PM arrive in Stockholm
Vasa museum – amazing 300+ ship recovered from the harbor
market
Italian dinner
opening of store
walked theater
subway back and watched 3 episodes of Freaks and Geeks
Friday
garden & organic lunch
Nordic Museummall (N&K)
Gamla Stan
movie Death at a Funeral
talk at house
Saturday
lunch outside Nobel Museum
Royal Armory at the palace in Gamla Stan
3PM City Hall (outside only as last tour is at 230PM)
Nobel Museum (free due to 100 yr. anniversary of Rudyard Kipling)
desert outside Nobel Museum
hotel check in (Radisson Royal Viking)
dinner at Christina’s (mushrooms & crepes)
take luggage via subway to hotel
9PM Ice Bar
Sunday
6:20AM – take express training next to hotel to airport 240kr for 2
9AM fly to Newark
12:30 – leave parking lot
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