We arrived at the Stockholm airport after dark and took the train into town. Check out the wood trim in the Arlanda Express. And free wifi on the train. We had been warned against taking just any taxi when we arrived in town at the train station. I think we managed to insult four taxi drivers, obstinately saying “We want a black taxi! A black taxi!” until we settled on a dark blue one. The ride to the hotel took five minutes and cost 20 bucks.

We arrived at the Grand hotel and were ushered to our room. We do not want to brag, but we are pretty certain we have discovered a new type of room. Let’s just say that in all our previous observations of hotel rooms in Europe, none have had the characteristics listed here. And we could find no record of such rooms in the literature. (Most papers seem to focus on diminutive high density rooms and the amount of people/luggage that might be inserted into them safely before they collapsed due to gravity.) It might also be a room that formed in some other environment and migrated here later in its life.