Verdal Hotel Trondheim

... but there was a train station so we stopped off there to get our photo taken with the sign. There really wasn't much there aside from a train station and a few houses but was still an entertaining place to stop off at. We then kept going north to reach Steinkjer for the night. The scenery along the way is amazing. The water and the mountains behind are actually really awesome and it was really nice just to sit and watch the scenery go by.

Ja dag startede som dag 4 sluttede dvs regnvejr så der bliv indkøbt div. pladstikpose så vi kunne pakke alle de ting som ikke var vandtætte , sko, tanktaske, hansker, mm.<br>Lige over middag stoppede regnen så nu kunne vi igen begynde at se landskabet som elles var indhyldet i skyer.<br><br>Har til aften har vi fundet en hytte da det var billige end to telte, og så har de internet :-)))<br><br>Jeg slutte for idag da det er spise tid at tør foder :-)<br><br>Lars

... t much more than a few houses, a train station and a postbox, but the name makes up for the lack of anything more. Interestingly enough, Hell is a translation of 'Gods Expedition'!<br><br>We ended the day arriving at Steinkjer, and by this stage of our trip we were really starting to notice that it was staying light later and later into the day.<br>

... happening. Tuesday in Oslo was a tiring early start because we'd got sucked into Foyle's War on the TV the previous night so we couldn't go to sleep until ended and we knew what had happened. Breakfast was the healthy-choices-only hotel buffet ahead of an express check out and short walk to the central station. A 4-car BM73 tilting EMU was waiting for us on platform 16 so we headed down and found our seats near the onboard cafe in car 2. I'm not sure if I noticed this last ...

... info only to find it only opens on Sundays in summer. Damn it. Back to the train station where we pulled the laptop back out, bought some internet time and set to work finding some accommodation. The hostel was pretty expensive and didn't sound that flash so we paid a bit more and found our own private accommodation. It was the most expensive place we have stayed in yet but we got there and it was nice enough with a big bathroom ...

The next day we set off towards the "troll's ladder" an extremely windy and steep road, at its steepest it has a gradient of 1:12. So many places in Norway have the word troll featuring in their names and there are statues of trolls everywhere. I got a photo with the biggest troll in Gudvanger; he looks like a large version of Hoggle the little goblin out of the movie The Labyrinth. Again we got a bad sleep because the truck stop we ...

Today was a big travel and visiting day starting with K Paw Gay Tha Mwey and Nini. K Paw fixed far more food than we could possibly eat. She is an excellent cook and makes the food look so good. We're getting to know each other better. K Paw Gay asked when we're coming back. I am hoping to have an all Norway/Sweden/Finland meeting somewhere centrally located in Scandinavia. We do have a good possibility of doing that and we'll be pursuing that for two ...

Die Halloweenparty war genial und feucht fröhlich. Wir haben viel gelacht und gefeiert. Ich versuch mal alle auf zuzählen, die dabei waren: also natürlich wir Deutsche: Carla, Tino, Kevin, Friedemann, Thomas, icke, dann der Jérôme und ganz viele Spanier: Pilar, George, und ich weiß gar nicht wie die alle heißen, naja insgesamt ...

... few hours later we experienced what Selbu has to offer at night. We went to a cabaret which was funny (but the jokes and the humour was kind of local so as an outsider you won't get it all.) We went to a pub with live music after, and had a lot of fun there watching people getting very drunk, fighting and drunkdriving.... (All the images in the photo album from Selbu are taken with a tiny digital camera which can fit into the palm of my hand. That's why they are less sharp than my other pics.)

... a hike to a river to roast some sausages. We really had a wonderful time, but you can see all of that in the pictures. Where I am now, and why I'm here! Why am I in a public library in Trondheim? As part of class, we take a week long excursion to different parts of Norway to get out of Hamar, expand our horizons, and have a little fun. Plus, it's all paid for through our program. So our professor Inger Haug is taking the five Americans, three Namibians, and one Belgian galavanting ...