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Day 8: June 3, 2019
Another star of the day with a breakfast fit for a queen on a diet - so many healthy options, but also a delectable sweets and aebleskiver and crepes... First stop, the most visited museum in Sweden, the Vasa Museum. In 1628 the biggest warship every built, pride of the Swedish navy and its warrior King Gustaf Vasa the Great, has managed to complete only a mile of her maiden voyage, before it capsized. Too many guns, and too high up! For 333 years it laid on the bottom of Stockholm harbour, until they dig it up in 1961 for us to admire it. But some were more exited about visiting the ABBA museum afterwards! Those, that were not such fans, went for a living village, Skansen, which represented the Sweden of yesteryear, farms, workshops, shops and churches from all parts of Sweden from the 19th and 20th century. The farms even had animals. Not enough time to see everything, sadly, we had to leave to board a cruise ship to Helsinki. Another buffet dinner with many different varieties of sea food, and vegetables, meats, desserts. There was even red and white wine and the beer on tap - not that anyone drank it of course. The waters of the Baltic were calmer, and we watched the little islands near the Swedish coast pass us by, before we went to our cabins.