Thursday, January 22, 2009

Ferry to Stockholm

So I took a ferry to Stockholm for 50 euro, which is what 2 nights in Berlin cost. However, here I had my own cabin for 17 hours, and there was a bar, a few restaurants, and a club on board. The bar and club would probably have been more interesting had it not been a weekday, so there were only like 10 people in each of them. So I had tome to read and sleep in my own room for the first time in a while. And while I have had my own room at other people's houses, I was only a guest there, so I felt that I should check before taking a shower and not sleep in too late, etc. I had stopped by a supermarket before heading out and I had grabbed my usual dinner provisions for a train: a beer, a bottle of water, a sandwich and a side salad of some sort. It was truly amazing how dark it got out when the sun went down and the boat was traveling through the Baltic. No stars or moon out last night, so it was pitch black outside of the boat.
I slept incredibly well, with occasional alarm sounds from the engine room which was either right below me or right next door (I guess that's what "economy" means). And then woke up, grabbed a sandwich from the cafe, and headed over to the subway nearest the seaport, which was about 1.5 kilometer walk, at least the way I did it. I am now at the hostel in Stockholm, and am about to head out and explore the largest city in Scandinavia (that sound's plausible, yeah?).

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