Perhaps it was watching Welcome to Sweden that planted the seed to travel to this country. Perhaps it was buying a Volvo. Meh, who are we kidding? We are always wanting to travel most anywhere. Whatever gave us the little push to book a trip here, it worked. This is day one of our Northern European adventure.

Flying on points, we didn’t have the best selection of flights. There are more direct routings, but to fly in First using points we had to fly first to Vancouver, wait there for nearly ten hours, then to London (on our first A380 journey) and then finally to Stockholm. We are bushed.

So this series of posts starts out very lightly, especially as far as photos are concerned … just some from the journey here a couple taken from inside our hotel room at the Hotel Kungstädgården.

Our British Airways A380 awaits at YVR

Room to stretch out!

Our flight across the North Sea offered a fish pie option for lunch. Ummm …. no.

Our hotel room in Stockholm

The view out onto the city we will explore over the next several days