My research trip to Stockholm's Vasa Museum

The Vasa museum, Stockholm is hard to miss! (Picture Susan Humphreys)
The Vasa museum is located close to the entrance to Djurgarden island and you can't miss it as the masts of the Vasa ship are sticking out of the roof!
The warship was built during a time when relations were bad between Poland and Sweden. But on it's first voyage out in 1628 the ship sank with 30-50 lives lost (. Many more could have died but it hadn't reached the pickup point for the 300 soldiers that were to join the crew.
The ship was then carefully brought up from its resting place in the 1960s.
The Vasa is absolutely huge and remarkably 95% of what you see is the original ship.

Me in the Vasamuseet, Stockholm
Walking round the six different levels gave me an excellent idea of what a pirate ship would have been like (if smaller.) There were also wonderful exhibitions including a reconstruction of the deck which was good for imagining myself in a ship. There were also lots of items on display found on the Vasa - including pots, cooking utensils and even shoes which good english explanations which reassured me on what I'd written about my own ship The Nine Sails.
We also enjoyed a visit to Skansen, the open-air museum, which looked beautiful in all the snow. We got to see Scandinavian animals and in the Akvariet (aquarium/terrarium) I got a nice picture of some huddled-together gentle grey lemurs.
Since I've returned home I've been continuing with my rewrite and I'm past the halfway point. I have also reintroduced Sniffer about half way through, but I'm not sure yet if he will stay - I have made him talk though which makes him more involved. My Cornerstones reader also suggested I needed to make more of the fossa but I must admit I'm struggling with that. Maybe something will come to me. There has been quite a few changes, hopefully for the better, to this version which I'm pleased with.
The only other hiccup I've got is I'm still skirting a bit round a scene where my heroine Millie hads to climb up to the Crows Nest. The problem is describing it accurately, I think I'm going to have to find somewhere to go where I can go up high and see how it feels - any suggestions welcomed. I should of course point out I'm not good with heights, in fact I get vertigo if I have to go up steps with gaps in!
I would definitely recommend a visit to Stockholm and we are hoping to go again. The Swedish people were also really friendly and made us feel really welcome.
Don't forget if you've been somewhere interesting in the name of research feel free to comment.