It is still morning when we land - wrong port so Tina does her magic to move our ride to the correct port. The ride to the hotel comes with a warning from the driver that we should look and not buy in the old town of Stockholm. "Way too expensive", he says. We expect Sweden and Norway to be expensive so we listen and promise to be good.
But the City is beautiful with around 2 million folks and plenty of steeples and water. We get lucky and one of our rooms is ready for an early check-in. We dump our bags and go for a walk just over the bridge to the Old Town. It is a beauty with small cobble stone winding streets, junk souvenir shops and up scale shops and narrow, inviting cross streets leading to??? At the end of the main street appears the palace. We are headed to the front door for the view and the promised changing of the guard. But we have time so we look around the central square in the palace grounds.
Like most palaces the Kings and Queens live elsewhere and only use the palace for coronations, welcoming heads of state, celebrations and such when they break out the good chothes and best crowns and jewels. But it is impressive. The guard changing is quite an event. OK, we get a taste of Old Town so it is time for some Duty Free Wine we snagged on the ship, and back to Old Town for dinner.
Nice Restaurant and nice menu - "Look, they have fish! - what a surprise!" They also have interesting stuff - Krim goes for the Elk and I am having Reindeer! (Sorry Rudolph!)
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