Our Stockholm hotel also included breakfast, which was even better than that in Riga.  It included such delights as pancakes, bread, bacon, tomatoes, pineapple, etc..  After breakfast, we went and bought 24 hour bus passes, with a plan to take the bus to the vasa museum, then do a subway tour.  However, the bus never showed up at the stop, so we started walking instead, and decided to watch the pride parade for a little bit.

A little bit turned into two hours, so we revised our plans and decided to go to the museum in the afternoon and do the subway tour the next day instead.  We went for lunch, and then walked to the stop for a local ferry to the museum, which was supposed to provide nice views of the city.  However, continuing the trend of not finding things, we couldn’t find it and after talking to some random people, determined that it might not run anymore. So, we caught a tram instead.

At the vasa museum (which is basically a building built around a salvaged ship called the Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1628), we took a free guided tour and watched a movie about the ship, and then wandered around to look at it.  It was actually surprisingly cool and interesting.

After the museum (which is on an island), we decided to walk back to the mainland, stopping on the way in a nice park with a view of the waterfront.  We caught a tram to Sergel Torg and walked back up the pedestrian street looking for pastries (we’d seen lots of good ones the other day), but everything was sadly closed.

We went back to the hotel, then went for dinner at a restaurant called Pelikan. I ordered a bacon dish, not really knowing what to expect.  It turned out to basically be a whole bunch of bacon strips in a creamy onion sauce with some potatoes, which was basically the best thing you could have hoped for (although I assume it probably knocked about a year off of my lifespan).  Had blueberry pie with a vanilla sauce for dessert.