Day 10

Somehow last night we convinced Kieren to get up at 7:30 instead of 7 to give Hattie more time in bed

It didn’t entirely work although at least the tv didn’t come on until then


I’ve got a bit more used to the breakfast set up and in fairness it’s more than adequate 


I could have done without the next table who had small children but we sat next to them so we only had ourselves to blame


Today I wanted to buy a local team’s footy shirt so we were off to the 3arena where surely they would have a club shop


It also gave us the opportunity to use the Harry Potteresque lift to get to the metro - very exciting 



The stadium was hugely impressive but alas had no club shop


These pictures really don’t do it justice as I was far too close at the time




Luckily the shopping centre opposite had Djurgardens’ shirts so it wasn’t a failed mission


We had a drink in the cafe, looked around the rest of the shopping centre and then took the metro and then a tram to the ABBA museum









We had some time to kill so had some lunch - meatballs for everyone and 4 very clean plates afterwards



We then looked round the museum and it was everything you’d expect - bright, loud and camp









We were tired at this point so took the tram back to the hotel and had a couple of hours to get our energy levels back up for the evening


We met up at 7 and it had started raining so we basically chose the first half decent bar with food and marched in






I say we marched in when actually it was just me - the others waited by the sign that I hadn’t seen..


The food however was stupendously large


Joss had salmon, Hattie had fish tacos and I had the ribs





I didn’t take a picture of Kieren’s burger as it looked sad without salad


From there we went to a bar that said it showed football, in the hope that they were showing the England game - thankfully they were not…





Then we made Kieren’s day by saying let’s head back to the hotel




We all needed a good night’s kip with the aid of too much alcohol so it was the best choice


I did, however, have time for a quick Plopp …





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