Category: Sweden

Fabulous. A fantastic day.

Is where we’re staying for the wedding. Simply stunning. Essentially these are views from our house.

BBQ the night before the wedding.

And it’s all about car hire as usual. Admittedly I left it late to upload the documents but when I did it said:

1. Driving license needs to be at least 2 years old. After the Spain debacle I had only just ordered my new license so it doesn’t comply. Luckily I had kept the old paper one which is fine.

2. An International Driving Permit (if required). So checked gov.uk which says you don’t need one in Sweden – phew. Then checked the rental company’s T&Cs which says you do if you’re outside the EU. Wish I’d never voted for Brexit 😂😂😂. Chatted online to the broker who didn’t know the answer. By now it’s 7pm. You can get an IDP from a post office and there’s one at Heathrow. So whizzed down to sainsburys to get the requisite photo. All set – just needed to change the time of the taxi because the PO is at a different terminal but they couldn’t change (and upped the price by 50% while we were on). Found a new firm.

Taxi arrives early, M25 is clear. All going well, despite being mis-directed in T3 but we found the PO. “We don’t do IDPs here….”

Check in and security is a dream – no more than 20 minutes, so now we’re 3 hours early. Plenty of time for a lovely breakfast and an online chat to find out we don’t need an IDP anyway.

It sounds trivial, and it is. But it is super-stressful and I think I need a holiday!