Sweden: Stockholm

For our first full day in Stockholm, we decided to visit the Vasa museum. Our plan was to initially take a bus/train but it all seemed a bit too hard so we decided to walk instead. It was a cloudy drizzly day but thankfully it held off during our walk. Lots of beautiful grand old buildings along the way with another (Nordic?) museum dominating the skyline. The Vasa museum was fascinating - even more so since it only sailed for about 30 minutes before keeling over and sinking. A total utter failure of engineering as it was too top heavy. Apparently it's sister ship the "Apple" sailed for 30 years but was more stable due to an additional 50 centimetres of width on either side, which also allowed for more ballast. When we finished the queue for the museum was huge - glad we went early!Read more