We began our Viking Homelands cruise in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. While in Stockholm, we toured Gamla stan, the old city, which is full of beautiful architecture. We visited the Vasa museum which house the ship Vasa that sank in the harbor August 1628. It was finally salvaged 333 years later. The museum is very well done. Viking Sea departed Stockholm traversing the 37 mile stretch through the Stockholm Archipelago to the Baltic Sea. From there we sailed about 250 nm to Helsinki. The Regal Princess preceded us down the channel. At 3500 passengers she is roughly 4x the size of our ship