July 11th. Visby, Stockholm

It was sad to leave Visby and Gotland today. We all would have liked to spend a couple more days traveling around the rest of island. Hopefully we will be back some day...

Luke and I started the day with a short, windy, and wet run along the Baltic north of the city center. The Baltic was dark, dreary, and windswept this morning (which is what I think of when I think of the Baltic). I though it looked cool.

We left our luggage at the prison and then had breakfast at a nice little bread shop. The frozen bullar(sweet breakfast bread) at IKEA is good, but it does not hold a candle to the real stuff. The plan for today was to check out the Gotland museum. Everyone except Lorna and Amy hit the museum. Amy and Lorna took in a church service at the St. Maria church. The service was all in Swedish but being good Lutherans, they got the gist of it. They also hit the craft market. The museum was quite interesting. It ran through the history of the island from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages. After the museum we ate lunch at a kebab joint and then spent our last couple of hours wandering the streets, taking it all in. Our ferry to the island on Sunday was the "small one," the ferry we took back to the main land today was the "big one." It had a great deck where we could say goodbye to Visby properly (and take lots of photos).

It was all going so well until we got to the port at Nynashamn. Everybody got there luggage but me!!!!! My luggage got lost!!!! At this point I have no idea where my it is. It may still be in Visby, at the bottom of the Baltic, with someone I don't know, or it is sitting at the dock lonely in Nynashamn. Ahh... traveling. There is always something.

We made it tour Air Bnb in Stockholm. It is a large house in a quiet neighborhood south of central Stockholm. It is quite the opposite of the prison in Visby. There are more beds than people! Hopefully I will get some good new about my luggage tomorrow. If not, I am going to go on one heck of a shopping spree in Stockholm. I may come home looking quite European.