Day 13 To the edge of Denmark

The Hotel

It was rather nice staying in a 5 star hotel. It meant I had to have the full breakfast and of course take advantage of the Sauna. All in all this meant I didn’t make the earliest of starts. Also I noticed that I am using a small but regular amount of oil. No problem in itself, but I wanted to top it up. This meant I had to get some Shell VSX-4, f rom a shell Garage. Not the easiest job in Stockholm. The first two I tried were no more. One was redeveloped into a dockside restaurant area and the second had disappeared under a new development. I was amazed at how much Stockholm had changed in the 3 years since I was there. The third attempt took me to just alongside the old Electrolux offices. I gave them a friendly wave as I passed. Then I called up an old work colleague just to say “Hi Jesper, fancy a coffee.” That would have shocked him but disappointingly he was not around, so I just left it as a message. With the oil in hand I took the underground to Akalla to save the huge taxi fare and then tried to get a taxi to the airfield. This too took longer than I expected but in the end I was there. No one questioned my presence, so I loaded up, checked the aircraft and departed.

Bromma was busy so I couldn't get a transit over the city, this is as close as I got.

The flight then took me to Norrkoping.

The runway here is best described as Dry, Dry, Very Wet!

A very helpful shell man helped me to refuel at a not outlandish price. Once I had checked the met I continued South West. The showers were quite dramatic and frequent, but I dodged round them and with very helpful ATC giving me transits of all the zones I arrived at Halmstad. I am in sight of Denmark, and also the big thunderstorm over it (wasn’t there something about that in Hamlet?)
So, today’s totals are 303 miles covered making 3541 in total.