Ramblings of the Sleep Deprived ...

Somehow, we managed to stay awake on Stockholm time today. It helps that it's nearly 9pm and the sun is still higher in the sky than an NJ noon.

We did a 2 hour HoHo tour to get an overview of the city and plan our day tomorrow - stay tuned.

More on our neighborhood - the downtown area across from the Imperial Palace ( known as Norrmalm) was developed in the 19th century and torn down in the 1960's to make way for business highrise buildings. It didn't work out ...

It turns out that AtSix, our hotel, was the anchor for a recent redevelopment that sparked a renaissance - there are more cranes than sea gulls now - with stores, restaurants and great crowds.

We ate at the hotel's sidewalk wine bar tonight, because well, a great pinot noir and chardonnay will help us sleep.

We took a walk after dinner and discovered that among the recent refugees that Sweden took in were cattle rustlers. This car was literally covered in cow hide.

The Stockholm Opera house was the perfect backdrop for Elsie, as we have reservations at the Opera Bar tomorrow night.

"Table for 50, sir? But of course!"

He's very much at home

My sweetie in front of Swedese. (Design store.)

Wälkommen till Sverige !

As you can see, we made it to Stockholm!

And apparently, it begins at an Ice Bar?

It was a looong flight, but as you can see from EWR post,  it was a comfortable one.

We connected through Copenhagen and had to go through Passport control to get to our connecting flight? Shenzhen, I guess. We nearly missed our flight, but we got another stamp for our passports.

We took the high-speed rail link from the airport to downtown on the Arlanda Express.

When we got off the train, we ran into our SAS flight attendant on the platform who recognized us and generously walked us practically to our hotel door. Yeah, that happens all the time at Newark...

When we finally got to our hotel, this greeted us in the lobby of AtSix. Geri definately appreciates and indulges my design aesthetic ...






It's now 3pm in Stockholm and we've been up for over 24 hours. We'll try not to sleep past dinner, but further posts today may be unintelligible.