Maybe this will go???

So, I wrote last night — TWICE! — and could not face a third time. And somehow, my screen turned into split screen and I have no idea how to get it off. Does anyone reading this have an apple ipad? If so, please tell me how to get rid of split screen!!

Yesterday, we did the hop-on hop-off and today we did our tour’s tour of much of what we saw yesterday, so we have a prettty fair idea of the most popular parts of Stockholm — and at least our guide (a live person) today talked to us about things where they were — hop-on/off was very badly off-register. It was in Lisbon, too — think the company should figure out a way to fix that; there are always going to road work and traffic delays in cities, so they should have switches for the drivers to turn on or off the tour info, or something. Kinda wonder: how much good does it tell people up top to not stand up because of trolly wires or tunnels when bus hasn’t gotten to them yet?

Last night we met our group, 2 couples from Denver, some from midwest, 1 woman from Punta Gorda, Fla, 1 woman from Scotland whose luggage has not caught up with her yet, and 2 or 3 couples from Australia — I think we’re 22 or 24, all seem quite nice. The Denver folks and at least one Australian couple have been to Santa Fe, seduced by its beauty.

Stockholm, as you would imagine or have seen in real life or pictures, is a gorgeous city — it seems so liveable. . . .well except for how expensive it is. Food (restaurant or pub, which are the only places we’ve been) seems to be about what we in Santa Fe would pay — the first night expensive (after all, it was French), yesterday’s lunch in a pub was “normal”, or at least not shocking (and I think less about cost on vacation vs. home), but it felt normal SF). But I think rent is astronomical, if you can find someplace in the city and not in a suburb. Suburbs may be less, but get the feeling that housing is just damn expensive in the whole metro area.

We are on the train to somewhere tomorrow. But now, we are going for lunch and maybe shopping — have not reconnoitered shop prices yet; if it’s like rent, you Santa Fe folks may not be getting presents, not even another bag that you have no idea what to do with.