After a very calm and tranquil wait for the 00:45 ferry, watching the sunset for the first time in over two weeks, any thoughts that I might sleep on the boat to Stockholm was dispelled as the sounds of the onboard night club preceded the boat – it was, after all Friday night.
I think that the boat was populated only by very drunk young Finns on a weekend cruise. As it turned out there was a very large tour group of Chinese who had sensibly gone to bed in their cabins and only appeared at breakfast.
As for me, without a cabin, well I did get maybe one or two hours of shuteye but, always seemed to get involved in unintelligible conversations with very drunk Finns that were conducted in half English, half Finnish, with some slurred Swedish thrown in for good measure. Hopefully none of them were going anywhere near a car for the next week.