Scandinavia

The next day, it is Monday July 14th, we packed some of our stuff in a small backpack. We've packed it with some clean clothings and such for the coming night on the ferry so we do not have to carry our heavy trunks onto the boat. After breakfast we left the hotel. At a supermarket nearby we bought some bread to eat while waiting for the ferry this afternoon and also something to drink for the day as it was going to be a very warm day again. Hilleke had the clever idea of first driving our car to the ferry terminal and leave it overthere and take a small ferry from there to Skansen, the open-air museum in Stockholm. We had visited Skansen two years ago as well during our citytrip back then and we thought Ciska would like it very much. We drove to the Viking terminal and parked the car in a garage so it wouldn't be in the hot sun for the rest of the day. At the pier from which the small ferry would leave we found out that it would sail anymore for this day. The only way to cross the harbour was by taking a tourboat that would stop at several places in the city and you could hop on and off as you like. But we had to wait for it for three quarters of an hour. So in the meanwhile we had something to drink at the Tourist Office on the quay. At eleven o'clock the tourboat left and after some stops we arrived at Skansen another three quarters later. In Skansen we first had a warm lunch as we would only have some bread this afternoon while waiting for the ferry. After that we walked to the area in Skansen with all the nordic animals amongst which you may find moose, bears, buffalos etc. At the bearpit it turned out that the cubs, that we had seen two years ago as very small bears, had grown significantly. Also the Moose family had expanded this spring. After visiting the zoo we also walked through the other parts of Skansen although it was too hot to wander around. Just after four o'clock we left the park and took the ferry back. The tourboat was already out of service so we took the ordinary ferry. But that one doesn't go the Viking terminal so we got off at the Katharina elevator and took a bus to the terminal. This is only one stop and all buses stop there so it doesn't really matter which bus you take from the busterminal.