Sweden

Itinerary

Sunday

• 2:00 PM — Left Rhinebeck, NY
• 5:30 PM — Departed Newark Airport
  (parked at FastTrack, may try ABC Airport Parking next time)

Monday

• 7:30 AM — Arrived at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm
• 8:00 AM — Retrieved bags and took taxi
• 8:30 AM — Arrived at Christina’s spacious penthouse co-op
• 10:00 AM — Walked to Gamla Stan
  • Saw palace exterior
  • Watched changing of the guard
  • Walked along the water
  • Lunch at Cafe Nova
  • Bought postcards
  • Visited Stockholm Cathedral
    (highlight: St. George and the Dragon statue)

• Returned to apartment
• Evening walk near Stadshuset (City Hall)
• Dinner with Christina
• Chocolate, wine, and photos late at night

Tuesday

• Subway to Central Terminal
• Bus to Nynäshamn
• Ferry to Visby, Gotland
• Checked into Hotel Villa Borgen
• Explored church ruins around town
• Dinner at upscale pizza restaurant

Wednesday

• Continental breakfast at hotel
• Explored more church ruins and botanical gardens
• Grocery store lunch supplies
• Rented used Opel manual-transmission car
• Visited Jungfrun at Lickershamn
• Ferry to Fårö
• Saw Ingmar Bergman’s grave
• Viewed Raukar limestone formations
• Dinner at Crêperie & Logi in Visby

Thursday

• Early ferry back to Stockholm
• Visited the Vasa Museum

• Coffee break at café
• Market visit
• Italian dinner
• Watched episodes of Freaks and Geeks

Friday

• Garden and organic lunch
• Nordic Museum
• Shopping at N&K
• Gamla Stan
• Watched Death at a Funeral

Saturday

• Lunch outside Nobel Museum
• Royal Armory visit
• Stockholm City Hall (outside only)
• Nobel Museum
• Checked into Radisson Royal Viking
• Dinner at Christina’s
• Ice Bar at night

Sunday

• Took airport express train
• Flight to Newark
• Left parking lot around 12:30 PM

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Costs

• Airfare: $700 per person (Newark → Stockholm direct)
• Gotland ferry: 250 SEK (~$40)
• Subway pass: 160 SEK for 8 trips
• Taxi airport → Stockholm: 395 SEK (~$70)
• Hotel Villa Borgen: 990 SEK/night (~$150)
• Italian dinner: 900 SEK (~$140)
• Ferry lunch: 170 SEK (~$16)
• McDonald’s meal: 55 SEK (~$7.50)

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A smaller camera with lower resolution is often better for travel than carrying a bulky setup. The Samsung camcorder turned out to be one of the best travel tech purchases of the trip.