Honeymoon Day one
Day one of the honeymoon!
Started the day at 2am packing! Then up again at 6 to get in the taxi (by far the most dangerous part of the journey)! After a "novel" route to Heathrow (involving coming off the M25 at one junction and then back on again to try and queue jump, and driving about three inches off the car in front) we got checked in an hour early. Got a bit of shopping done in terminal 3, and then a quick and comfortable flight courtesy of SAS to Stockholm. A bottle of Champagne helped the time pass quickly! (That and puzzler compendium...)
Once in Stockholm the Arlanda express carried us cleanly efficiently (and environmentally friendlily) to the center of town, and a quick Taxi ride deposited us in our Hotel, the Rival (part owned by Bjorn of ABBA fame). We got an upgrade thanks to our newlywed status (yay!) to a wonderful room with a huge marble clad bathroom with the biggest walk in shower I've been in outside of a swimming pool, a plasma TV and DVD player, some CD's (including Marvin Gaye to get us in the mood for lurve) and the most wonderful comfortable bed!
One quick nap later we came down to the restaurant for dinner. Smoked salmon, asparagus, dill, lemon, grated horseradish and avocado mousse followed by truffle and chicken sausage with apple gravy, potato cake and mini onion rings and a watercress salad. Pudding was a mango sorbet with raspberries stewed with vanilla. And to top it all off a rich intense espresso! Wonderful! (oh and a Staropramen dark which goes on to the list of beers to keep an eye out for!)
After dinner we got kitted out in our coats and gloves and spent an hour or so wandering the streets around the hotel. It was dark and snowing and absolutely magical (photos of all the above to follow at some point) . Parks blanketed with snow, and street lights casting a shimmering arc of light through the frosty air. Really special. So we are now back, rosy cheeked and warming up nicely, just off to the bar maybe for a quick drink and then to bed.
Over and out
The newlyweds.
Started the day at 2am packing! Then up again at 6 to get in the taxi (by far the most dangerous part of the journey)! After a "novel" route to Heathrow (involving coming off the M25 at one junction and then back on again to try and queue jump, and driving about three inches off the car in front) we got checked in an hour early. Got a bit of shopping done in terminal 3, and then a quick and comfortable flight courtesy of SAS to Stockholm. A bottle of Champagne helped the time pass quickly! (That and puzzler compendium...)
Once in Stockholm the Arlanda express carried us cleanly efficiently (and environmentally friendlily) to the center of town, and a quick Taxi ride deposited us in our Hotel, the Rival (part owned by Bjorn of ABBA fame). We got an upgrade thanks to our newlywed status (yay!) to a wonderful room with a huge marble clad bathroom with the biggest walk in shower I've been in outside of a swimming pool, a plasma TV and DVD player, some CD's (including Marvin Gaye to get us in the mood for lurve) and the most wonderful comfortable bed!
One quick nap later we came down to the restaurant for dinner. Smoked salmon, asparagus, dill, lemon, grated horseradish and avocado mousse followed by truffle and chicken sausage with apple gravy, potato cake and mini onion rings and a watercress salad. Pudding was a mango sorbet with raspberries stewed with vanilla. And to top it all off a rich intense espresso! Wonderful! (oh and a Staropramen dark which goes on to the list of beers to keep an eye out for!)
After dinner we got kitted out in our coats and gloves and spent an hour or so wandering the streets around the hotel. It was dark and snowing and absolutely magical (photos of all the above to follow at some point) . Parks blanketed with snow, and street lights casting a shimmering arc of light through the frosty air. Really special. So we are now back, rosy cheeked and warming up nicely, just off to the bar maybe for a quick drink and then to bed.
Over and out
The newlyweds.
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