Comfort Hotel Trondheim

... boats, North Sea bound structures, rock formations, diverse architecture and most interesting cloud formations.<br><br>As we have been heading north an initial stop on Day 2 was a Torvik. It is a 'fly on the wall' type of place, seemingly out in nowhere but closely tied into the mainland. The Nordkapp or Coastal Express as it is called stopped for 30 minutes, just enough time to leap onto land, check out the local sights, take some photos and climb back ...

... earlier). Nidaros Cathedral, built from 1070-1300ish, is the highlight of the town now, although there is also an excellent military museum next door as well.<br><br>The rest of the day was spent in the Panorama lounge, watching the scenery go by.<br><br> The next morning we were up early to be on deck as we crossed the Artic Circle. The globe ...

... speed of 160km/h seemed to only be acheived on rare occaisions, during the odd straight section. I didn't mind the slower speed of the train but it grated against Steve. He feels even scenic trips should be restricted to a 2 hour maximum travel time so the almost 7 hour journey to Trondheim was not to his liking. In terms of the scenery, we climbed slowly until we reached mountain plateaus in the middle of the trip and began to descend again. It didn't snow at all during the ...

... amazing fish soup. Piled high in the centre with so much fish in it, before going to a coffee shop to wait out the last hour or so until the train left at 11:30 10 minutes after departing we stopped in the middle of nowhere and the ticket collector came around. We thought that they must have stopped the train to do this but 15 mins later the message came across that the engine was broken and that they were waiting for a new engine.

... moose's so that was very exciting! There we have to find out about the ferry to Turku, Finland, fingers crossed its not going to be too expensive we hadn't looked into it and didn't realise it took 16 hours to get there. Apparently the day ferry is cheaper than the overnight one, which isn't really ideal but may have to be the go if it is considerably cheaper. We will write again from Finland - Love Josh &amp; Kitty Mileage - 900 miles

... figured out the right bus without Nini. We were to take the number 7 bus, but it was not the "right" number 7 bus. We were in the morning rush hour. Again, it's atmosphere for me surreal as you see so many people clogging a four lane road into Trondheim for work and school. We got into the center of town and Nini was trying to get us to the change bus, but we decided to just walk to the train station which was about ten minutes. This is first of two ...

... wir vielleicht 15 oder 20? Bei Friedemann war erstmal das "Vorspill" und dort haben wir auch unsere Kostüme optimiert, ich sage nur Ketchup. Gegen halb zwölf ging es nach Steinan und wir ordentlich getanzt haben und gegen halb fünf war ich zu haus. Ich muss gestehen ich habe etwas über den Durst getrunken. Aber der Abend war irre!

... zu Ikea gewackelt und hat sich eine Bettdecke und Kleinkrams wie Teller, Tassen usw. gekauft. Ich glaub Ikea macht hier richtig Geld mit den studentischen Neuankoemmlingen. Hab auch gehört, dass die billigsten Matraze bei Ikea im Moment auch knapp ist, weil einige exchange students noch keinen Wohnheimsplatz bekommen haben und bei anderen im Zimmer auf dem Boden schlafen müssen. Auweia, das lief hier wriklich chaotisch ab. Aber zurück zu unserer WG ...

... After a long nap due to not sleeping the night before, we headed across the river into the city to walk around the cathedral and admire the beautiful architecture. It was sometime tough to take pictures of the full cathedral as I do not like walking into surrounding graveyards to do it. Something about walking on dead people that I just don't like. From there it was over the old town bridge to the fortress at the top of the hill. The fortress ...

... Leif. Turns out Rein is an electrical engineer who works for Atmel in Trondheim and I pretty much bombed him with questions as to how I could get a job in Norway, sounds pretty promising actually. Tomorrow I am off to the way north to a place called Bodø, I am probably a bit too late to see the midnight sun, but it will be close. I won't really be staying in Bodø, trying to get to the Lofoten islands which are supposed to be amazing.