The Premier Ferry Trip

The First Ferry Trip 

Unfortunately both Maria and Tom were unable to attend our premier ferry trip, but their time will come. As seen in the picture below, it was a lovely day for a boat trip in Stockholm. We can already see Carl and Trolle struggling with the ticket machine, but that might be the topic for another day. Written on the ferry we could see that Waxholmsbolaget is the company managing the boats.

Some pictures were taken on signs regarding the ticket system. Are they comprehensible? Do they achieve their purpose in an optimal way? All these questions... 

Also, the ticket machines. 

Proceeding, we find ourselves in the ferry's "queue system". Basically a U-turn with a fence in between. Here we could see our first sample of the population. One school class, a small group of presumably teenagers, some old folks, tourists and what we can consider as "normal" people - unclassified for now. At 12:24 the ferry departed for Djurgården, and the excitement was astounishing.

During the boat-ride about half of the passengers stood on the deck enjoying the view and talking to each other,  the second half stayed inside doing things like sitting down talking, using their phones and looking outside the windows. Also some people seemed to be doing nothing special at all, just sitting doing nothing.


We spoke to the ferry-woman managing the gates when we arrived at Djurgården and asked if it would be possible to speak to the captain and see the cockpit. She said it could be possible if we just ask them beforehand. This is something we definitely should do in the future since it would pose a great opportunity for a naturalistic observation of the captain and his cockpit. We asked the same woman what she believed was the most frequent group of people which she answered with "Mostly school-classes, but also "normal people"". We didn't push our inquiry further after her response because she needed to attend to new passengers. We can however note that school-classes seem to be a notable part of the population.

We ended our first meeting at a local restaurant discussing what we had experienced.