Pictures and Stories About Bicycle Tour Adventures

Early Morning

Above: We just purchased one week transportation passes (inclusive of bus, train and some water ferries).

Pictured is our Årstaberg (home) train station/stop. I think Årstaberg means 'New Year Town' (or something close to that). We're sort of lucky in that almost all trains on this track stop here (because it is a major crossover route on the south side of Stockholm). Rather than head north to Stockholm C (Central), we are heading one stop south to visit Terry's Conference Center in Älvsjö

Above Left: Old Work Horse.

Above Right: New Train, Ours.

Above Left: Commuters.

Above Right: Älvsjö (just one station stop away).

Above: Conference Center: Terry goes to class, I get to perform two weeks of laundry and catch up on some work/email correspondence!

Above: Interesting Seats at the Conference Center.

Evening Dinner Boat Cruise Visits Drottningholm Palace

We book an Evening Dinner Boat Cruise that leaves from the Stadhus (City Hall) docks through the Strömma Kanalbolaget Cruise Line. The M/S Prins Carl Philip sails at 1800 hrs and returns roughly at 2030 hours. We arrived at 1758 Hours (with 2 minutes to spare). It heads through several channels and turns around at the Drottningholm Palace after a 15 minute wait

Above Left: Skål!

Above Right: Small crowd, good company.

Above Left: Stadhus, City Hall, Nobel Prize Dinner Location. We will have dinner there in two nights.

Above Right: Stockholm River/Dinner Cruise View.

Above Left: Water served in clear wine bottle. I've quit ordering wine in Sweden because I got tired of two inches of wine at double the cost of a 12 oz Beer/Öl (same problem in the USA too).

Above Right: Same camera angle but the background has actually changed.

Above Right: The Stockholm area is a network of a few hundred islands and many boats have arrangements for passenger ferrying to and from their home island.

Above: Photo stitch of Drottningholm Palace in the sunset.

Above: Drottningholm Palace.

Above Left: 15 Minute Disembark/Visit.

Above Right: M/S Prins Carl Philip.

Above: M/S Prins Carl Philip at the docks for Drottningholm Palace.