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Stockholm to Turku, finally we can stop traveling for a bit :)

We had to get the bus from Stockholm central at 6:30 am which would have been no problem if we hadn’t slept through Paulines alarm at 5:45. Luckily I woke up at 6:07 and we just made it. The Viking Lines ferry “Grace” is absolutely enormous, we had a nice cabin and the cost was 30 euros each which is not bad for a 10:30 hour 320km voyage. Sailing through the archipelago on the way out takes hours and is beautiful. There are hundreds of little islands with people’s holiday houses on them.

Sailing through the Stockholm archipelago on the good ship “Grace”
Breakfast with quite a view
The breakfast buffet on board was quite impressive
You could choose from several bars to do your dancing
Approaching Åland
Docking at Mariehamn, bit of a queue
At tea time we went to the restaurant where they charge you by the weight of your plate, and naturally we had meat balls. Was excellent.
Bought a Viking Line tee shirt, you can’t have too many tee shirts, particularly in a cold climate like Finland
Our apartment for the next two months is lovely, we’re very happy. Two minutes walk to the University.
The apartment building.
The local church is quite impressive
Nice evening walk along the river
Good to see the support for Ukraine
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