Unlucky...

I thought leaving for a plane 4 hours early would be enough to stave off any misfortune...

Apparently Skavsta, the airport I was supposed to be flying out of, is 80 mins away on the bus. I knew this, hence the 4 hours early. Unfortunately, I didn't plan on them running buses every 30 minutes throughout the day... until a big gap between 4pm and 6:30pm. (I have no idea why, it seems ridiculous to me.) So when I arrived at the counter at 4:10pm, I was told that the next bus was departing at 6:30pm, arriving at the airport at 7:40pm, meaning that I would be too late to check in for my 8:05pm flight. I tried another bus company that was going somewhere near, and was told it would be too slow and I wouldn't make it.

So, with the flight no longer an option, there were two goals: goal 1, work out where I am sleeping tonight; goal 2, get to Berlin. I saw people turned away from the hostel because they were full tonight, so that was out. The highly useful train timetable book, however, listed a night (and most of the day) train from Stockholm to Berlin, which I tried to get on (two birds with one stone!). I was partially successful - I need to get from Stockholm to Malmö, Malmö to Copenhagen, Copenhagen to Hamburg and then Hamburg to Berlin. I got a bed on the Stockholm to Malmö overnight train (goal 1, check), and there is no reservation necessary from Malmö to Copenhagen. Unfortunately, the train is fully booked from Copenhagen to Hamburg.

This leaves me in Copenhagen tomorrow morning, and fingers crossed I should be able to sort something out there - hopefully a train to Hamburg sometime tomorrow, where I can apparently easily get a train to Berlin. So, now I have another 5 hours to kill until my 11pm train... I hope the power on my DS and my mobile hold out.