36 hours. What can you do in 36 hours? As it turns out... Arrive in Stockholm, stow big bags in lockers, get immediately onto airport bus to city, walk from central station to old town (Gamla Stan) - discovering incredible Asian/Japanese buffet restaurant along the way (memorise for dinner purposes), buy postcards and badge along the main shopping street en route to lodge - point out town hall/palace/parliament along the way. Get to lodge 2 minutes after code becomes valid to open door to room (wonder in awe at seemingly 98% automated lodgings. Wonder further at how small the room is.) Continue on. Make a coffee, program google-maps, head to Sergels Torg to meet 4 pm walking tour of Old Town. (Retrace steps with tour guide and 30 tourists in tow... to Gamla Stan which is where our nifty little lodge is). Walk/Talk/Tour. Finish about 6 pm- head immediately to incredible restaurant (on the off chance any one is ever in Stockholm - Restaurant Tang). Immediately eat enough sushi and assorted other Asian food (and grilled lamb chops mmmmm) to sink the Titanic. Eat some more (really think the restaurant did badly out of our custom). Walk around the main shopping streets and then back to Gamla Stan and enjoy all the major view points by night. Have a shower long enough to empty Stockholm's water supply. Collapse. (been up since 4.30 am in Iceland). Insert ear plugs purchased during the afternoon - immediately after check in when we discovered there was a couple with 2 toddlers across the hall. Sleep like logs until woken at 7.30 am by toddlers seemingly running wild around entire lodge and slamming themselves bodily into our door. Breakfast. Toast. Coffee. Pay. Check-in online for next flight. Get staff (yes! they have staff - actually expected someone to just be on a Skype screen when the window to reception opened), to print out boarding passes. Head to morning meeting point for walking tour of Modern Stockholm. Rather conveniently, the meeting point was in the Old Town. Go figure. Walk/Talk/Walk/Talk - guide was a transplanted Kiwi/New Zealander with Swedish heritage (and thus a prized EU passport). Reach exhaustion point by tour's end at midday. Ignore it. Go and visit incredible private palace (for free!) as recommended by kiwi guide. Get on pre-booked winter boat tour of Stockholm and surrounds (just a month ago the little boat would have been using her excellent ice breaking skills... sadly now, Spring is here). Eat traditional yellow pea & ham soup (perhaps inhale would be more appropriate). Finish cruise. Head back to lodge via the Medieval Museum (free. yup. In Stockholm!) Cities should learn to never dig for a new car park... that's when you find ancient city walls, cemeteries, secret tunnels etc. Then you end up with a whizz new museum - but sadly, no carpark. Eventually make it back to lodge - grab tiny cabin bags. Retrace steps... All the way up Shopping Street to the Central Station. Wait all of 5 minutes for the airport bus to slide by. 55 minutes later reach Arlanda Airport. Wave credit card at storage locker thereby paying the ransom and releasing our big bags from captivity (brilliant!!!). Check in. Eventually fight way through Duty Free and get to the SAS airport lounge. Due to injudicious crediting of Star Alliance points a couple of years ago had just enough stray frequent flyer points to buy two entries to the lounge. Drink/Shower/Eat/Write/Drink (and drink and drink... do you know how much alcohol costs in Scandinavia??? More than their social welfare bill! That's why you have to go hard when it's free in the lounge.) Possibly drank a teeny bit too much. Freshened up and got on the plane at 9 pm. Off the plane 1 hour 20 minutes later - at 11.20 pm (dang that time change). Off the plane first. Met by pre-booked cabbie man who broke all sorts of limits to get us to the hotel within 7 minutes. Checked in at 11.30 pm. Suspect cabbie returned to airport and got another fare from our flight. Collapsed in Vilnius, Lithuania. Did I mention we were now in Vilnius? And that's what you can do in 36 hours.