The steps by the blue box

On this detour, we hadn't even taken the subway. But we proved perfectly capable of getting lost when we'd been traveling in a straight direction on the bus as well. At one point on this adventure we could see where we were going, but we were up on a bridge and the street was below us and there was no way down. We backtracked and found a friendly Swede who pointed us to a set of stairs tucked behind a blue salt box. But to get to the stairs, we ended up walking even further away from our destination. Thank goodness for Rob's collection of locally programmed cell phones, which allowed us to tell him he was in sight--even if we couldn't actually get to him.