Our son Kelly began another trip this September, starting in Norway. After spending some time very far north in Tromso (look it up) well above the Arctic Circle, he came down to Stockholm where we decided to meet him for a weekend, and the he and Therese would go over to Helsinki and on to Tallinn, Estonia. I have been to both Stockholm and Helsinki and thus I knew you could take an overnight cruise between Stockholm and Helsinki, and also knew you could take a short cruise over to the lovely medieval town of Tallinn, Estonia.We left Geneva early on Saturday morning October 10th , Kelly meeting us at the Stockholm airport mid-morning. We learned that the poor guy couldn't find a room anywhere in Stockholm the night before (Hostels, that is) and thus he pretty much partied all night with the locals in Gamla Stan (the old town island) and then had to crash in the airport.
So we collected him up, went to the Radisson SkyCity hotel at the airport, let him take a shower and catch a nap while Therese and I took the train into central Stockholm.
We have few pictures of our first day in Stockholm because in the middle of a tour of the Royal Palace Apartments, Therese announced that she needed to go the hospital. So we ran to a pharmacy, found out what bus to take to the airport, what the name of the hospital was (Swedish isn't the most intuitive language) and spent the rest of the afternoon in a Swedish hospital emergency room. They're pretty much the same everywhere and no, it was not free. But we got some antibiotics and Therese improved quickly.
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