Last day in Stockholm and again sun shining and gorgeous! We started off with a bike tour highly nerve racking because we had to go through a fair bit of traffic and it's on the right side of the road which in spite of being in Europe for 6 weeks, I haven't got the hang of at all.
However we're mostly on bike paths so it wasn't too bad. We rode around Stockholm and then onto to the other islands. It took 3 hours, involved a few hills, was 10km long and I stacked the bike once but other than that did pretty well so I'm a bit proud of accomplishing it. Couldn't sit for a few hours, need a bit more padding on my derrière.
On the tour there were plenty stops to hear some history and what's happening in Sweden today. For instance Swede's are notoriously shy and aren't good at meeting people. Out of the 9 million population, 4 million are online dating. I'm clearly living in the wrong country!!
After the bike tour we went and tried another speciality of Sweden, cinnamon rolls. Absolutely delicious. Then checked out the markets and I had yet another hot dog!
Then it was back on the ferry for another overnight cruise. This was a much smaller cruise ship and the food very expensive and not very good. That being the case we decided to have picnic on the deck because the weather was so nice.
This time I was sharing a cabin with Chloe and Freya two sisters from Sydney and poor Albert the American who was stuck in a very small cabin with 3 girls! It also meant that if anyone needed something from their bags everyone had to sit in their bed and one person could open their bag at a time!
After a quick shower it was up on the deck to watch our route through the Swedish islands.
Then we found a good spot and said goodbye to Sweden with schnapps and pickled fish (Swedish tradition). After our picnic dinner we went to the on board entertainment. We had very low expectations because Anna our guide had said it was usually terrible and they were also doing rock of ages.
However instead of the program of rock of ages they had a south american troop called Amazonian. They were acrobats and were just amazing!! (Also helped that the men were delightfully ripped and can do flips like you wouldn't believe!!) So that was an absolute gem. Then to Anna's delight we caught one of the world cup semi finals, Germany v Brazil where Germany smashed Brazil to pieces 7-1.
A good end to a good day!
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