So the time has come to make our way home to Portishead. Our flight is not until 9 pm so that’s given us most of the day for some last minute activities. We put our bags into luggage lockers and headed towards Vassamuseet. Unfortunately, our arrival coincided with the arrival of about 10 coach parties, so with the chaos and long queues we decided to try the Abba Museum next door. The queues were a lot shorter but we couldn’t bring ourselves to fork out the £ 50 to enter. Inside we went into the Spirit Museum, this being a lot for affordable, and having just opened as we arrived, a lot quieter. This turned out to be a really interesting museum covering many of the social and historical aspects of alcohol in addition to the techniques involved in creating them. Many of the exhibits looked at the herbs involved in spirits and we both learnt about fusel oils that result as a by product of distillation and fermentation.
We then found a collection of old maritime vessels you could go on for free. Part of the maritime history museum, exploring the icebreaker and lightship was a lot of fun. You could go pretty much over any part of the vessels. We spent some time there.
We then treated ourselves to a good lunch at a restaurant overlooking the harbour.
