Housework came a calling again and we go to Stockholm's only Laundromat
(!) where for just $32NZ we get our bag of washing cleaned and dried. What were you saying about expensive countries again Andrew? We had a minor panic attack when we find that around 80 of our photos have disappeared off our camera... luckily Mike has been a nerd about backing up to the netbook... so a crisis is avoided! We realise that we haven't gone up anything really tall for at least 2 days -so we up the Koknastornet Tower, which is something like 170m tall and was built in 35 days. That's ridiculous... no really -it's ridiculous! The views are pretty cool -and different to most of our 'really high view' places because you can see all the way over to part of the archipelago -which is Swedish for "crap load of very very cool little islands". Next we're back into town to see the dance museum. It's free and totally worth the admission price... mostly because it's almost entirely about ballet, which is ok because Shona used to dance that -but we'd hoped to see so other forms of dance shown as well. The Vasa museum is also about only one thing (a salvaged 330 year old warship) however this is definitely worth a visit even had the admission price been more than the 9
5DKK pp charged. From all accounts the Swedes are very clever people -and the skill shown in lifting this 300 tonne ship and the 500 tonnes of water (within the wood) to the surface, the care taking in drying it over many years without damaging it and the presentation of the findings pay tribute to this intelligence. Sadly the fact that the ship was designed so badly that it only made it 1.5km on it's maiden voyage before capsizing in calm conditions does reflect badly on their skills. To be fair the fault in large part lies with the king at the time -who insisted on a second level of cannon decking, even though the hull had no where near enough space for the ballast required to keep the ship stable (and putting more weight in would have put the water level over the level of the cannon openings anyway!) Kinda sad that all that work was wasted as it sunk into the clay of the Stockholm Harbour -but then this is
the only reason that 95% of the ship was able to be recovered, as in the open sea it would have decayed in much much less than 330 years! Trivoli started in Copenhagen -but like Disneyland they have spread out across the lands so we wander over to the park to see what's happening. We don't feel the need to go into another fun park at this point so we catch a ferry back to Gamla Stan and wander back to the boat for a restful night.
(!) where for just $32NZ we get our bag of washing cleaned and dried. What were you saying about expensive countries again Andrew? We had a minor panic attack when we find that around 80 of our photos have disappeared off our camera... luckily Mike has been a nerd about backing up to the netbook... so a crisis is avoided! We realise that we haven't gone up anything really tall for at least 2 days -so we up the Koknastornet Tower, which is something like 170m tall and was built in 35 days. That's ridiculous... no really -it's ridiculous! The views are pretty cool -and different to most of our 'really high view' places because you can see all the way over to part of the archipelago -which is Swedish for "crap load of very very cool little islands". Next we're back into town to see the dance museum. It's free and totally worth the admission price... mostly because it's almost entirely about ballet, which is ok because Shona used to dance that -but we'd hoped to see so other forms of dance shown as well. The Vasa museum is also about only one thing (a salvaged 330 year old warship) however this is definitely worth a visit even had the admission price been more than the 9
5DKK pp charged. From all accounts the Swedes are very clever people -and the skill shown in lifting this 300 tonne ship and the 500 tonnes of water (within the wood) to the surface, the care taking in drying it over many years without damaging it and the presentation of the findings pay tribute to this intelligence. Sadly the fact that the ship was designed so badly that it only made it 1.5km on it's maiden voyage before capsizing in calm conditions does reflect badly on their skills. To be fair the fault in large part lies with the king at the time -who insisted on a second level of cannon decking, even though the hull had no where near enough space for the ballast required to keep the ship stable (and putting more weight in would have put the water level over the level of the cannon openings anyway!) Kinda sad that all that work was wasted as it sunk into the clay of the Stockholm Harbour -but then this is 
the only reason that 95% of the ship was able to be recovered, as in the open sea it would have decayed in much much less than 330 years! Trivoli started in Copenhagen -but like Disneyland they have spread out across the lands so we wander over to the park to see what's happening. We don't feel the need to go into another fun park at this point so we catch a ferry back to Gamla Stan and wander back to the boat for a restful night.
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Lucky your cruise boat is better designed than that one eh? Though, how many annon decks do you guys have? Mabe there is some happy middle ground.
ReplyDeleteDidn't realize that you had taken your surveying gear on the trip with you Mike. I thought you guys were traveling light!! Are you seeing lots of ABBA look-a-likes?
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