With Tim (and my favourite pair of runners) now safely in tow, we could now attack our road-trip with a renewed energy. I won't tell him this but I had missed him dearly (he doesn’t read the blog so I am safe). We started the day planning the next few weeks in Scandinavia. Airbnb is certainly not immune to the region’s extortionate pricing but I back my eye for value. We then headed into Stockholm central and walked through Gamla Stan once more. This ...

Our next destination in Sweden was Stockholm. Tim, Kate's brother, was going to be arriving into Stockholm Arlanda Airport today to join the travels. There were a few issues in getting to the airport in time to pick Tim up at 1:30 pm. The first one was running out of internet on our phones. We had forgotten to top up our phone credit and the plan had expired at midnight which meant we had no way of contacting Tim. The second was that our Airbnb in Bålsta had...