Short and sweat
I know you read “short and sweat” and thought… haha, typo.
Nope.
More on that later.
Good news: I actually got some sleep last night. I slept really hard, too. Barely remember time passing between hitting the pillow and waking up.
So yay.
Bad news: sinuses still clogged, sinus headache still there, still cranky.
Whatever. We had to get off the ship.
Luckily, our room class meant we could head down whenever we wanted until 9am - but we had to vacate the room by 8am, so we just left then. Viking had cabs ready for folks like us who were heading someplace other than home.
Off we went to our hotel, the Radisson Blu Waterfront.
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The hotel part is that box in the back. The fancy front bit is their conference centre.
I chose this hotel because we’re going to have to catch a train to Copenhagen tomorrow and I didn’t want us to have to schlep our luggage and stuff too far to get to the train. I think I did pretty well on that front!
It’s literally right outside the front door of the hotel.
The train station is actually really nice - it’s huge and clean
And the room is pretty nice, too - we have an awesome view out the window:
….which is actually not available, because opening the drapes raises the room temp by at least 10 degrees and the hotel doesn’t have AC.
So. Short and sweat.
Lunch was from the train station and it was basically just “whatever we can take back to the room, I’m tired of peopling”. Don’t judge.
So back in the room, we needed to chill down the champagne - Viking gave us a bottle for each of the two cruises. We shared the first one with our new Aussie friends and we saved the second one to toast both the end of the cruise and our anniversary (8 yrs tomorrow).
I offered to go down to the hotel bar and see if they had a champagne bucket we could borrow, then had a better idea: Put it in the minibar!
I had to empty everything else out first:
Yay! I shut the door on the minibar and then noticed a sticker on the door of it that says, “all items in the minibar have sensors. As soon as you remove the item, it will be charged to your room.”
D’oh!
I ran downstairs to the front desk and opened with “I did a very bad thing…”
The nice lady told me not to worry, they took the sensors out a long time ago because people were always using the fridge to cool their own items down.
Whew.
After that, naps happened. We’re hoping the temps drop enough by bedtime so that we can open a window, but it’s not looking like that will happen. They’re having a hot spell in Sweden right now. Le sigh.
We ate at the hotel restaurant for dinner (all the restaurants around the hotel are fast food) and had some delicious Swedish meatballs with fresh lingonberries.
We’re back in the room now, in bathrobes, drinking champagne from wine glasses and praying to Odin that the weather cools down a little.
Train ride to Copenhagen tomorrow - which will hopefully be drama-free. I say ‘hopefully’ because I got an email from the company I booked the train with that the carrier has decided not to go all the way to Copenhagen, but will stop in Malmö. That’s only about a half hour from Copenhagen, so no big deal IF we can figure out which train to switch to in Malmö.
But that’s a worry for another day. ’Nite, y’all.