Finally, we got a full 9 hours of sleep. The alarm wakes us at 6am but with a more comfortable bed, room darkening curtains and quietness outside, we finally start to feel better. With sunrise at 4am, it always prevented us from sleeping in, along with the noise. My plan for today is to catch the train in town before 9 so we need to get started early. Up and out of the room by 7, we head to the Lido for breakfast. Karen doesn't have to make breakfast and s...

You know. From the musical "The Music Man". Whatever. If you remember, we went to bed early last night, trying to shake the last of our jet lag. People were out wandering the streets, the normal shopping and dinner crowd. The Italian singer from the restaurant next door was doing his "O Sola Mia" which, I must say, is very good. The band is playing at Charlie Scott's across on the corner but it's all good. Then comes 10pm when all those people leave and t...

I'm wide awake from all the noise at midnight. That's only 3 hours of sleep. I concentrate and eventually doze off until 4 am. It's light out and the noise is picking up. No longer the party crowd, it's now garbage trucks, postmen, street sweepers, wall washers and delivery trucks. This is a clean city but it seems like all the cleaning is taking place outside our apartment window. I'm finally out of bed at 4:30am and Karen soon succumbs to my...

It's 4am and I'm wide awake. I can't go back to sleep. I try but I've been in bed for only 4 hours and I'm done with sleep. Just like our Christmas Markets trip in 2014, jet lag always kills me. It's light outside. Garbage and street cleaning trucks are running up and down the streets. The party people are now gone, replaced by the working people. I lay in bed thinking about today's activities until 5:30am and finally give up. Karen is...

Today is the day we fly to Copenhagen, Denmark to begin our six week vacation through the Baltic area of Europe followed by a Transatlantic cruise back to Boston. Well, problems have already started. At 10am we get news from Norwegian Air that our 5:30pm flight has been changed to 7:20pm. I call the airline and ask if that will affect our connecting flight from Stockholm to Copenhagen. I already know the answer. This is a test. The agent says "Your connecting fl...