We're back from Sweden. We managed to negotiate things so that everyone got to do everything they needed to do, so Elinor went on her school trip, but just left a bit early to get the ferry


It is a shame that the route from Newcastle to Sweden is finishing as we've enjoyed cruising off to Scandanavia. The new route is to Norway which is a new and exciting place to visit, but having had a look at holiday cottage prices it is also significantly more expensive.

If you do happen to be in Goteborg a great place to visit with kids is the Universeum. We've been twice now and it beats any other natural history/science museum I've been to.
You can watch their huge aquariam on a live webcam on
http://webcam.universeum.se/view/view.shtml
There can't be many museums with their own rainforest!