Stockholm Arlanda Airport

7.07 am, a weird number, for me a sign to wake up, but today wasnt the same as everyday, today we would finally fly to Stockholm and go on our Roadtrip through Sweden. I had been thinking of this moment for the past 3 months. My big reward after having studied almost 24/7 - okay I am exhagerating a tiny bit but you can imagine what I mean. Anyways I got up, got ready and met Nene in front of our house:)
We took a five minute train to the Airport (never been at the airport this fast in my whole life) and were perfectly in time. (Keep this sentence in mind - you won‘t hear it anymore in this blog post…)
So anyways, we checket in & walked to our gate, got coffee and did what people usually do while waiting for the boarding. Then suddendly we noticed the flight got delayed by 50 minutes. We were a bit worried we would miss our connecting flight in Copenhagen but then we said we would just take it as it was and we couldnt change it anyways. 70 minutes later we were sitting in the airplane but had to wait other 40 minutes for it to take off. Even though it made us loose even more time, I got the chance to beat Nene at Quizduell - one of the highlights of the day so far. Let me just point out, this guy is reaaalllyy good at that game (or I am just terribly bad but let‘s pretend it‘s the other option)
So 11:33 our flight took off. During our flight we talked to a flight attendant and asked her for help. She said the information will follow shortly before the arrival so for now we just had to wait. Later on they told us that we could get on the next flight at 2 pm. WOW we had been lucky! So in the end everything had turned out well. Well… as we arrived in Stockholm after a beautiful flight where we could see all over southern Sweden & recognised cities and lakes below us, we walked to the baggage claim. We were already 1 and a half hours later than we should have arrived but we would still make it to the van rental before 5pm if everything went well. HA HA. At the baggage claim Nene‘s bag arrived but mine didnt, yippie, what now? Maybe it would arrive a little later, should we wait? Nope, I knew it wouldnt. First of all I really had the feeling it wouldnt and second of all in said on the pannel that the last baggages were already out.
I mean, how much can possibly go wrong in an airline? We went to a desk where a guy was talking to a man about his lost suitcase, so we waited for that conversation to end only to be told that this wasnt the right desk. So we walked on and found another guy who finally told us where my backpack was: in Copenhagen. He told us they would send it here eventually - what an information. Since we really couldnt do anything about it my anger and worry disappeared and we decided to take a taxi to the camper rental. Even though er were 45 mins late, we still got out Camper which to my delight was automatic:)) First we drove to Lidl to get food for the next couple of days. Our shopping trip was quite fun, we laughed a lot and I almost forgot I had just lost my bag somewhere at the airport in Denmark. Until suddenly I got a message: They had found my backpack and would send it to the Airport Stockholm:) Wohoo, just for fun, knowing they wouldnt get a response, I answered them and asked for more info, which made us laugh even more about it. We decided to drive to Björknas Camping next to a lake, 45 mins from the Airport. The drive there was really pretty, the sun was setting and the tiny red houses decorated the scenery - i was quite amazed and again I forgot about the bag. The camp ground was also a total jackpot, we got in easily through an online page which generated a code, so we could get in. There was a lake, gras fields and Forest all around. We went to the lake but had to escape from mosquitos attacking us. (The mosquito spray was still in Copenhagen back then) in the van we prepared a salad for dinner, since it was already late and went to sleep shortly after:) I was really exhausted. What a day!Read more