Visby; Friday, 25 May, 2018

I finished work at 4 and headed straight to the airport, though on the Friday afternoon at the start of a Bank Holiday weekend this did take longer than usual. Thankfully I’d left enough time and got to the airport just on the 2 hour to departure mark.

The plane was parked out on the airfield, so pretty soon after getting through security we were called to the gate to start boarding buses. Possibly because they had started so soon it meant that the flight was all closed up and ready to go a good 10 minutes before our originally scheduled departure slot.

It was a smooth flight over to Stockholm, with our flight landing just behind an easyJet arrival from Luton. This did mean that by the time we’d been parked up and started disembarkation the queue for the two passport booths was already pretty long and it took a good 20 minutes to clear immigration.

Thankfully, this did mean that all the luggage was on the belt when I got through and so I was able to walk straight up to my bag, grab it and head through the deserted customs channel to arrivals.

I’d booked to stay at an airport hotel overnight, so I started heading off through the terminal buildings to get there. It turned out that the hotel was at the opposite end of the airport to where we had landed, and it took nearly 20 minutes to walk the distance, including several escalators, travellators, stairs and lifts before I finally reached reception and checked in.

Nearly an hour after landing I finally hit my bed for the night and set my alarm for a far too short distance into the morning