I went on a boat trip around the city yesterday. Remember Stockholm is comprised of several islands connected by bridges and an internal freshwater lake is separated from the Baltic sea via locks. Out of Sweden's 9 million, 2 million live in the city or around it (comparable to Dublin really), though the country in terms of land mass is the fifth largest in Europe. It's all very interesting.

Afterwards a visit to the relatively small, but very high quality modern art museum. As usual renovations (or more accurately rehangings) were going on, so the contemporary stuff was out of commission. Very well put together though. They even had "Le Chien Andalou", "L'Age D'Or" and "Modern Times" all playing, though I wasn't going to stand around for hours watching any of those.

Big Chinese/Japanese buffet then. There was even a selection of 8 ice creams for dessert, one of which was black, or rather dark grey. Had to try it. Licorice, I think.

Today then I got to see the Vasa, a 17th Century warship that sank in the harbour on its maiden voyage. Lucky for us the brackish water of the baltic preserved it and in the sixties they raised it, practically intact. It's 70 metres long and nearly 50 high; it's big! And like I said practically intact.

One thing I've noticed a lot of on the Continent are bicycles, but today was the first time I noticed an air pump especially set up for them in the park. That's the way it should be. No traffic jams here by the looks of things.