Visby; Saturday, 26 May, 2018

I had a quick shower and headed down to breakfast. The hotel is very large, and a major conference centre, consequently the dining room is vast though at 8am on a Saturday morning it still was quite difficult to find an empty table.

A quick breakfast and a dash back to the room to pick up my luggage then I checked out and walked back through the terminal to checkin for the morning’s flight to Visby. Thankfully, this was from Terminal 4 so I only had to walk a couple of minutes, rather than the 20 minute walk of the previous evening.

It was an uneventful, if quick, flight to Gotland – landing less than 40 minutes after leaving Arlanda. After collecting my luggage, I headed out of the airport and picked up a taxi into town and onto my hotel.

Consequently, it was only just after 11:30 when I arrived at the hotel, and I was expecting to be told I’d have to store my luggage and come back later, but the hotel had my room ready and I was able to checkin, dump my luggage and head back out.

Part of what attracted me to Visby were the images of it’s city walls. An almost complete set of medieval walls encircle the old town of the city, with most of the towers still standing as well. I wandered out of the hotel and headed down to the sea front and the start of the walls.

I walked the whole way round the walls, a circuit of about 3.5KM, but by the time I’d been in and out of some of the towers and taking in some of the other views, including the stunning views over the city from a terrace above the cathedral, it was nearly 5pm by the time I finally made it back to the hotel.

I had a quick freshen up and then headed back out into the centre of town to take in a little more of the city’s sights including the main square and the Cathedral before stopping off at one of the restaurants lining the edge of the town square for a light dinner (light mostly to keep costs down).

Sitting down for 90 minutes to have dinner turned out to not have been the best idea as I’d started to seize up from all the walking earlier and it was a stiff and slightly painful walk back to the hotel and my bed to try and relax and unstiffen my aching limbs.