The broken tooth has now been fixed. The next visit to the dentist will be a check-up in October1.
Technically I will make 2 visits in September, but those are for 2 of the children, as I will be driving them there.
Thinking about creating Yet Another Alternative™ to a problem I have worked on simply because the existing alternatives either require some special syntax or are slow/reluctant to take in suggestions/fixes.
Managed with my Swedish skills during the day. Of course, I did not need to speak much, but enough to be able to handle the situations I was in.
As a sidenote, I asked politely to move out of the way when exiting a small store auf Deutsch, obviously, as I heard them talk in German just moments before.
@matigo IIRC, it is 80 cm wide at the narrowest point. As I don’t know how wide washing machines or typical boulders are in the USA, I cannot give the width in the freedom units.
@variablepulserate We are on a ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm that leaves at 5 pm (Helsinki time) and arrives at 10 am (Stockholm time). Then we will spend the day in Stockholm and then come back over the next night. It is fairly refreshing to be able to sleep before the visiting Stockholm, and the same applies to when we come back home.
And what comes to the hassle, it is pretty non-existent. As both countries are members of the EU, the Schengen area, and Nordic countries1, one just needs to have the boarding pass with them. Also, the Covid restrictions are pretty relaxed nowadays, so there is no hassle with that either.
Should one wish to travel to Tallinn instead, then there is a bit more hassle due to different regulations. IIRC, one would need s valid ID to be able to enter the ferry. But then again, that trip across the sea will take only a couple of hours, so one will be in Tallinn on the same day even though the ferry would leave in the evening.
// @matigo
There has been constraint-free travel between the Nordic countries well before Schengen or EU.
@matigo Yeah, but waiting an extra hour at the ferry terminal is, well, not that nice. When we leave at 14:30 we will still be early enough at the terminal.