We woke up at 5:45 am to take Inger and Per to the Stockholm airport for their trip to Michigan. It made for a long day, but not as long as theirs. It is 10 pm Stockholm (still daylight by the way), and we are at our hotel, ready for sleep, and Per and Inger are still in the air. Also Ken and Hillary are on their way to Stockholm, and will cross paths with the Walldeck's at some point between Detroit and Stockholm. Today we walked from our hotel, the hotel Birger Jarl to the Old Town of Stockholm and back. A lot of walking, looking in shops, and very little eating, so when we got back to the hotel we were famished. Pat takes responsibility for our bad lunch, as she had read that Marcus Samuelson owned this restaurant. He is a well known chef , who owns the famous "Aquavit" in New York City and Stockholm. Plus, he was at the Epicurian Festival in Traverse City. So I figured the food would be good. Wrong! We ate a bad sausage and taco at the Central Station for lunch, then came back to the hotel and rested, showered and looked for dinner.
All restaurants were full, but we finally found a nice place called the Zink Grill. We had a nice meal, fairly reasonable for Stockholm standards 1040 Kroner, which is about $170. Included a bottle of wine, and some appetizers as we were very hungry. Of course it was overpriced, as all things are in Stockholm. I acdtually paid $9 for a bottle of Belgium beer at the Central Station. Very stupid of me, I just didn't think about it, but overall we have bewen able to keep costs down due to the house exchange and the ability to cook at the house in Motola.
Tomorrow we pick up Ken and Hillary and return to Motola. We will post more pictures later.
Dan
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