Stanga Hotel Linköping

... a little quesy but managed to down my breakfast. Today we were going to Stina's house for dinner so we decided to make ANZAC biscuits. They turned out really good except they decided to keep their ball shape instead of flattening out. No big deal. Stinas house was beautiful, however her bedroom wasn't practical for the taller population. She had a giant beam that was my forehead height and no I didn't hit my head so stop snickering ...

... This was more my style. There was a battle of the DJs with 5 DJs from around the area spinning for the title. The music was RnB and Street. We all had a great time dancing (or shaking our junk in the trunk as Ivana paraphrases lol) and fell out of the club when it closed at 2am. My favourite DJ didn't win, but they were all really good. I really enjoyed the Swedish music as well. Who would have thought i'd have to fly across the world to find a club that i actually like?

... to know everyone better. Our next stop is to walk over to Kira's parents, Thorston and Mariane Engholm, who live about 15 minutes walk away. So, everyone gets bundled up and off to another Fika. The Engholm's have a charming Swedish home with red beams. It is beautifully furnished and very comfortable. Before retirement Thorston Engholm's career was in the Swedish Air Force ...

... someone from the United States speaking Russian. Hmmm... Normally, the flight from Tallinn to Stockholm is straightforward, cheap and uneventful. It's only one hour across the Baltic Sea. Not this time. We made a big mistake. Our original flight was cancelled. Then we were rescheduled onto another airline. We got the times mixed up and missed it! BIG mistake. That's all I'll say here about it, but ...

Day 3 was our last day and we had to get up really early for a bus at around 5 in the morning. We then had hours to kill before our flight home. On the flight we were just leaving when someone was taking ill so we had to go back and unload them, they were taken off in an ambulance.<br><br>

We spent the second day just chilling out and looking around the town (not much to see in winter) before heading to a sports bar for dinner and then to the concert.<br><br>The concert was amazing and afterwards we went to the stage door. After waiting ages we were told that Kerry and Mazz had gone out the front door so we ran round the front, highly embarassing as it was a glass building so Mazz saw us run round.

Flight<br><br>So the flight was relatively quick but we nearly had to divert to a different airport due to adverse weather conditions. As it was we did manage to land but we had hours to wait until we could get a bus to Norrköping so we killed time by playing musicals pictionary.<br><br>Transfer<br><br>The bus from the airport to the city took about an hour and a half but it went quite quick because we ...

... man viele, teilweise über 250 Jahre alte Häuser aus der Innenstadt Linköpings umgesiedelt hat, um sie zu erhalten. Wir fahren weiter Richtung Ostküste, um Anna's Eltern zu besuchen. Unterwegs halten wir an Astrid Lindgren's Elternhaus auf dem Hof Näs in Vimmerby, bewundern den Limonadenbaum von Pippi Langstrumpf und den Schuppen von Michel, in dem er seine Holzmännchen schnitzte.

... Then we had a little celebration with champagne, cheese and crackers. It was all so very wonderful to be immersed into this family and see all the relationships and interactions among them. Kira's two brothers are tech savvy and we talked about upgrading Paul Spenser and getting him into wireless. I've just about been off Internet while here, but did manage to get out a few messages on Yahoo to our continuing destinations in Denmark and Norway. It does not look like we'll go to ...

... the train. On the train no one came by to take our money so we got off without paying. We later found out that the first train compartment that we avoided since there was a line to board, was where you had to pay. It served us right since I thought that we were supposed to meet our friends at Linkoping station when it was supposed to be the next station, Mantorp. Minutes after we got off the train, Stacy realized that she left her backpack on the ...