Västerås to Potsdam

When we arrived at Västerås C to travel to Stockholm, where we were booked on the night train to Berlin, we discovered that all the trains were stopped because of an accident in Enköping! 

I was a bit uncertain if it would be OK to get on the sleeper on Norrköping instead of Stockholm, I rang SJ, and was reassured. We then got on a train for Norrköping and had an even longer wait there than we would have had in Stockholm.

It was comforting to see that the competing Snälltåget was delayed by about 45 minutes, but ours was in time! I don't know if they made up that time or not, but we were about 30 minutes late arriving in Berlin. 

There must be something big going on in Berlin at the moment because hotel rooms start at about 400 euros! We booked in Potsdam for less than half that, and have had a very nice day on a hop on hop off bus. 

Potsdam is a very interesting city a bit bigger than Västerås, with history going back some hundreds of years with lots of kings, mostly called Fredrik. And of course it was the scene of the carving up of Europe after the second World War, with Stalin getting pretty much all he wanted, setting the stage for the cold War.