Stockholm impression

On Monday 2nd June we retrieved some post from daughter Alice containing documentation from the Swedish lifeboat organisation and a special flag to use when tied up to a Swedish Cruising Club buoy. We also did some cleaning and sorting on board Badger, washing the deck and trying to get rid of rust stains round the old liferaft cradle position. This kept us reaonably busy. We als emptied the rope locker and junked some old dog-ends of tatty rope. In the evening we went off to an Asiatic restaurant and retired to bed.
It gets cold at night with the inside temperature reaching 11C quite often. It's only really noticeable if we need to get out of bed as the sleeping bag and thermal blanket combo works very well.
Tuesday 3rd June
Today was initially cloudy and then rainy so not very pleasant out. We took the ferry to Gamla Stan ( oldest part of Stockholm) to have a very good and cheap lunch at the Stadts Mission Cafe before going off to the German church to get our Early Music Festival passes. As first in the queue we got special treatment, given chairs to sit in as indicating our status as old dears and photographed as first customers. Kristin is required to do an interview for Stockholm Radio when the festival opens tomorrow. Incidentally Leif, the harbourmaster at the marina had to answer questions on Badger to a radio interviewer doing a piece on water temperature ( currently 10C). Leif also showed us his pride and joy, a 1986 Morgan with a V6 or V8 engine. He drives it only if the day is dry and sunny.
I'm amazed at the amount of building development work going on in Stockholm. There are projects apparently going on everywhere. It is such a contrast to the lack of such activity in the UK. We are still in depression mode but Sweden clearly is not.