Stockholm; Sunday, 23 December, 2018

I had another long lie in and excellent breakfast before packing my bag and checking out.

I headed back down to Nybroplan to pick up one of the commuter ferries that operate across the inner part of the archipelago. Whilst you can take a sightseeing tour around the islands, these are €25, where as the commuter boats are included free of charge on the transport ticket that I already had.

The boat headed out past the museums of Djurgården and the ammuseument park before continuing along the main channel between Djurgården and main islands that the city has expanded out onto.

The journey took around 90 minutes to get over to the final stop on Lidingö, from there it was a short walk up from the ferry terminal to the tramstop to pick up a tram a couple of stops back to the top end of the red metro line back into the city centre.

From the centre of town, after a quick lunch stop, I headed back out towards Djurgården, originally intending on visiting Skansen, the combined ethnographic museum and zoo that takes up a large part of the island, but by the time I got there it was less than an hour before it closed, so it felt like a bit of a waste of money to go in, if I wasn’t going to be able to see much of the site.

I was quite glad I made that decision as over the next 20 minutes the weather went from light snow flurries to quite heavy snow and the temperature took a dip, so that by the time I got back to the city centre the conditions were really unpleasant.

I quickly thought about what to do for the 90 minutes or so I had left before I needed to start the journey home, and then I remembered the very nice looking coffee shop just opposite the hotel, so I headed there for a very nice cup of coffee and a very comfortable seat in the warmth.

A couple of coffee’s later, and taking the opportunity of a slight lull in the weather, I headed over to the hotel, picked up my luggage and headed down into the metro station to start my journey back to Arlanda airport and my flight home.