Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Delta Airlines on Jul 19th, 2011
Yesterday, I forgot to mention that we’d purchased (8 pounds for adults; kids free) roundtrip shuttle tickets to/from our hotel. It worked fairly well from the terminal to the Radisson. However, the 9:15 shuttle for our terminal (4) never showed up. We waited until 9:35, and then I grew impatient. So, we hoped in a […]
Posted in Delta Airlines, England, London on Jul 19th, 2011
In the very nice SkyTeam lounge, awaiting out flight to NY-JFK. Here’s a photo Emerson enjoying the good life. Next update will be from NY. Wish us luck!
We again awoke early, packed up our bags (this always seems to take me more time than it should), and spent a couple more hours walking around Stockholm. Since it was Monday morning, more of the stores were open… this gave us a chance to enjoy some of the Scandinavian design on offer. We also […]
Posted in Sweden on Jul 17th, 2011
We awoke by 6am this morning, had breakfast and coffee, and got an early start on seeing more of the city. We began by walking to the Stockholm’s historic core, Gamala Stan, where we began the self-guided walk provided by Rick Steves: “Welcome to Stockholm’s Old Town.” This took us past the Royal Palace, obelisk, […]
Posted in Sweden, Vision of the Seas on Jul 16th, 2011
We docked in Stockholm by our appointed arrival time of 7am. As we weren’t in a rush to depart the ship, we finished packing up our stuff (our primary luggage was placed out in the hall the evening before) and fed Emerson a breakfast in the Windjammer. The taxi queue was very long (and slow […]