No coffee and crumpet for us today. We had a 5:56 train to catch to Stockholm. So at 4:45 in the morning Sandy and I are walking to the train station, only seven minutes from the hotel, but, this was without coffee. Still we made it and joined a handful of sleepy fellow Stockholm bound travelers waiting for this early train. I walked around the station until I could find a coffee. We sat there and drank it...slowly the world was starting to make more sense. Catching the train, sometimes sleeping, sometimes looking out the window, and sometimes eating the rest of last night's dinner, we gracefully rolled into Sweden and then eventually into Stockholm in just under six hours.
The iPhone has made travel so much easier. Using the map program we walked the twelve minutes straight to our hotel. I remember our first trip to Paris. We emerged from the subway in the middle of the city, had no idea where our hotel was. Sandy's French skills and our then much younger legs allowed us to wander around that unfamiliar city until we found that little hotel. Today, thanks to Steve Jobs, we can start out like we lived here all our lives.
After checking into our hotel. We set out to explore a little of Stockholm.
Neither Sandy or I had ever been in an IKEA store. In the heart of modern Stockholm is the Gallerian Mall. A pretty fancy mall that has an IKEA as one of its anchors. Also the IKEA Swedish Meatballs seem to be the thing legends are made of. So we decided this was the place to both make our first entrance into an IKEA and to sample the meatballs. After visiting, I think that IKEA is marketing to a different demographic than Sandy and I. Also I think the meatballs are very good, but I don't think they're so good they should be named after the country.
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