Gothenburg to Stockholm - 12th August

This time the morning was nice and relaxed, having triple checked the train times every hour throughout the night.

The breakfast was an enormous affair, stacks of hot things you choose from, a vast selection of bread and cheese, as well as omlettes and waffles. Needless to say we got our moneys worth.

Checked out and left the luggage in the hotel while we foraged for cake, then found a supermarket to get enough snacks to last the train journey.

Got to the railway station a good hour before the train was scheduled to leave, and were on-board as soon as the doors opened.

The journey across the country was amazing, something we're glad we did. Not only is it so relaxing not having to drive and concentrate,  but seeing the lush scenery and different towns was brilliant.

We arrived in Stockholm around 7pm, and just a short metro ride to the station nearest the hotel. Each of the metro stations is fashioned like a cave but decorated in a different way, like an art gallery.

A 15 minute walk to the hotel, and we arrived tired and ready to collapse, however... because the hotel hadn't received our email, they'd marked us as a "no show" so had charged us and cancelled the booking and given our room to someone else as they were fully booked!

So we got into the phone to booking.com. It was quite funny; we were on one phone to booking.com who were on another phone to the manager sat across the room from us.  Long story short, we're now in a massive twin room which has enough space for two fold up beds and still has room to swing a cat.

Bite to eat in the hotel restaurant as there doesn't seem to be much around, and collapsed, hoping that the stressful part of the holiday is over.