Visby; Monday, 28 May, 2018

It may have been a Bank Holiday in the UK, but for the rest of Europe it was a normal Monday, which consequently meant breakfast ended early, so I had to cut short my lie-in to be able to have something to eat.

Breakfast completed I popped out of the hotel and a couple of buildings down the road to the Gotlands Museum. The museum tells the history of the island and the city of Visby from a Geological and Social viewpoint starting with the formation of what is now the Baltic, through to exhibitions on how people lived up until the end of the 20th Century.

In the end I didn’t have enough time to see the museum in as much depth as it required as I had to get back to the hotel, pick up my bags, check out and head on over to the airport.

The hotel kindly booked me a taxi so that I got to the airport about 75 minutes before my flight was due to depart. I thought that would be cutting it fine, but in the end it turns out the traffic is quite slow here, and whilst at Arlanda checkin closes an hour before departure at Visby they don’t open the desks until an hour before.

Having made my way through the small airport I waited in the tiny departures lounge for my flight which turned out to be half empty in the end!

40 minutes later we landed in Stockholm and after a quick wait for my baggage I walked the long trudge back to Terminal 2 and checked in for my flight back to London, which even 4 hours out already had a near 90 minute delay on it.