Comfort Hotel Trondheim

... quarter. It is a small town here, but holds a nice tourist free feel to it.
We are now making the most of having the freedom to roam as in 3 hours, we will embark on a 28 hour journey up to Tromsø in the Arctic Circle.

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... to be believed, this furniture business is definitely upscale.

Morning found the MS Nordkapp moored at the wharf in Trondheim. Trondheim has about 160,000 souls, a thriving ship building industry and a well respected university (apparently about 20,000 students or so if one of the students I asked can be believed). Trondheim, like Bergen, was the capital of Norway in the 13th century. A 20 minute hike brought one to Nidaros Cathedral, the gem of ...

... s airport is quite out of town at Vaernes, which is just across a river from Hell. We were given a nice parallel with a Norwegian Airlines 737 on approach to the airport, descending over the fjord as we neared Hell. From Hell our train branched off onto the Meråkerbanen for the trip up the Stjørdalen valley, climbing to the Swedish border. Interestingly from the border, not the border station at Storlien, the line features overhead wiring, making our diesel unit only ...

... for 100 NEK. But they were all closed by the time we got there on Saturday so we were counting on being there when they opening sunday afternoon. A day and a half was perfect for us to see most of the city. It's a smaller town that has a wonderful spirit; and it was amazing to spend my time there with two amazing fun people. Sean and Brooke were two great people that i really enjoyed spending my time there with them. Sean was great at being our leader when Brooke and I had no idea where we ...

... day to wander around but it would have been impossible to see everything. We did climb to the central hill to see the ruins of the first stone castle in Norway, built in the 1200s by King Sverre. Before leaving we stopped at the Tavern - an original restaurant from the early 1700's where we tried (and liked!) our first Norwegian specialites. We have also enjoyed the loooong days in Trondheim, so much more ...

... Tabernacles in the Worldwide Church of God. I remember it being spectacular and look forward to seeing this beautiful mountainous part of Norway again. Then tomorrow afternoon we come back to Oslo and will stay at the airport the night before flying back to the United States. Our train had some technical problems. We are told that because of large snowstorms in the mountains that they have problems getting trains between Oslo and Bergen. We had to ...

Gestern (6.10) war also das Eurodinner. Vielleicht habe ich schon mal erwähnt, dass sich eine Gruppe netter Deutscher und ein Franzose zusammengetan haben, um jeden Montag etwas nettes aus ihrer Heimat zu kochen. Und da wir also so gut in Übung sind, dachten wir uns, wir machen bei dem Eurodinner mal mit. Die Regeln waren einfach. Anmelden - Kochen - Spaß haben. Erster Schritt: Anmelden!! kein Problem ! Zweiter Schritt: Was kochen wir? großes ...

... alle ohne zu kentern wieder in ruhigen Gewässern angekommen. Für die zweite Runde wurde die Gruppe nocheinmal halbiert und wir durften uns Namen und Schlachtrufe für die Teams ausdenken. Dann haben wir verschiedene Spiele gegeneinander gemacht und das Siegerteam musste immer den Schlachtruf zum besten geben. War echt lustig. Und dann kam das worauf ich schon die ganze Zeit gewartet hatte - nicht das ...

... Monday the BMW man looked sideways at our beast and showed her a big hammer. Low and behold she roared into life! (he had tried the technical approach but still no life in her) As my mate Willie Nelson once sang. "On the road again!" My butt was starting to get used to a descent seat again so just as well we were back on the bike.

... true friendship or love doesn't seem to happen very often. I don't live up to the expectation that I should buy presents. I don't. I really don't. I'm not buying someone a gift only because it's Christmas. What kind of person thought of that idea, anyway? He must have had some sincere brain damage, if you're asking me. And I told the family that I didn't want to receive any presents, either. To them it was very weird not to buy their house guest a present and they bought ...