After a not very good night's sleep I think I can say that at this time of year the sun does not ever really go away in Stockholm. I don't think it ever got darker than just a deep blue. Just enough to get the street lights on but not full dark. Eventually though it was time to get out on the road. At 4:45 there were still lots of people out coming home from their late nights out. We caught the express train (normal trains weren't running yet) out to Arlanda airport which was a zoo. You'd think Stockholm would have a nice, efficient airport but no, things were moving so slowly they had to hold the plane for us and a couple other passengers who were trying to get through security after dropping off their bags. Crazy!
Once on the plane I promptly passed out and woke up in Copenhagen which has an incredibly efficient airport - except for where people come out of the baggage claim, that is a nasty bottleneck. But their security area I think is the biggest I've ever seen, it seems to occupy an entire floor of the main terminal building. But anyway, after a snack we boarded flight number two to Dusseldorf via Air Berlin again. And again I managed to sleep through the flight.
Our layover in Dusseldorf was about 5 hours so we decided to catch the train into the city and find a place to have lunch. The area around the train station wasn't too nice and it was pretty dead on a Sunday so we ended up walking maybe a bit over a mile over to the old town area before we found any action. It seemed to us that on our walk the canal that runs north/south through central Dusseldorf separates the nice and touristy side from the less nice, dead-on-a-Sunday area. The old town area was very nice and crowded due to some festival going on. We found a place that seemed alright if not a little seedy and the food was okay. But the trip out was worth it to see what was going on in Dusseldorf.
Heading back to the train we got caught in a sudden and intense rain storm so we were a little bedraggled getting back into the airport. This one was another efficient one and we had no issues boarding our flight back to the states. Naturally I got stuck behind a full time seat recline person and naturally I gave it a few good shoulder checks. I watch Desolation of Smaug and The Lego Movie, both were enjoyable. We spent the night with Peter and Vicki again and tomorrow we are flying back to our respective homes. Trip over! What a great one! Hope you enjoyed reading.
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