Arlanda

Getting through Arlanda was complicated by my bags not arriving. By the time I had reported that, I was well behind and was clearly not going to catch the train I had originally contemplated.

I travelled through Arlanda in 2018, but there have been some changes, although clearly my memory of how far the train station was from the arrivals hall didn't deal well with the reality. It wasn't as close as I recalled! The other change is that SJ, the Swedish train company, needed me to purchase my ticket online. That worked.

I spent much of the three hours on the train puzzling about who would be responsible for getting my bags to me and how long that would take. At the lost baggage counter, they informed me that the last time my bags had been 'visible' in the system was at Abu Dhabi, so it seemed that they still had some way to travel, which would take a little more time to get them to me than if they had been mishandled later in my journey.

I did a quick calculation at Arlanda that I had been travelling for nearly two days at this point. Ugh!Read more