Trondheim Travel Blogs

Travelling by car signs helps you to find the right way, the right place, a hotel, the beach, a resturant and so on.   The signs also tells you to look up for forexample children, animals, and bumps.  It is often nice to have this signs. Signs can be seen in resurants, shops, o…

        Christmas in Trondheim   Christmas is soon here, and in Trondheim we hope to have the magic snow for the holiday.  Trondheim is dressed for Christmas, the Christmas tree on the Main Square was lightened 1st of December. The Christmas tree, is decorated wi…

        Our small TB meet up has come to its end.       Milan has been in Trondheim since August 30, and tomorrow he is leaving town.     We have met a few times during his stay in Trondheim.     September 3 I invited him for din…

    My cell phone rang to day and it was my beautiful Travbuddy friend Mehmet (TB name dieforu) calling me.     I had the opportunity to get to know Mehmet last summer when he visited me in Trondheim.  We spend a day together in my hometown.  I guided him through…

  Celebrating the Norwegian Constitution Day is for me a very nice tradition. Although I have to go out of bed at 0545 am I`m looking forward to the day.  I`ll be dressed in my uniform, marching and playing my saxophone most of the day.      In the evening I`ll change …

      Spring is in the air.       The sun is shining and the snow is melting.      The day is getting warmer and longer.  The dark days are over for this time.  The sun rise earlier and set later.      Today I have…

        The weather is nice in Trondheim, sun is shining, sky is blue and the temperature is 22 degree Celsius.     I love my garden and today I have enjoyed working in it.            

Well we are back in Trondheim. It is cloudy, windy and raining. I am so glad when we hung out with Marit it was a sunny day. We docked here for 4hrs. We arrived at 6am. We went outside at 8am. We just walked outside for an hour. I took more pictures.   It was a boring day today. Ther…

In my head I always remember a commercial from Norwegian television that was built around one sentence “It’s good to be Norwegian " in Denmark” and now I know why! I have never in my life been in a place where things have been so expensive, it was ludicrous. I guess it starts when you come …

To day was the day, I met Melanie - mellemel8 , a Travbuddy from who I have read lots of blogs.  I wanted to show her my part of Trondheim, lots to see, but so short of time. I drove down to the harbour with my banners, the American and the Norwegian, to welcom Melanie and…

        Christmas has had a long and varied history. It was been celebrated for centuries by different people, at different times, in different places, and in many different ways.     Christmas is celebrated throughout the Christian population, but is also cel…

Last week I had friends visiting me from Sweden. I guided them around. It was rather nice to be tourist in my own hometown.Welcom to Trondheim, City of the Viking King and the Historical Capital of Norway.Trondheim is a meeting place. Old and new combine, the crown and the churc converge, warriors …

Looking through Marit’s (tvillingmarit) pictures a while back I ran across a great shot of two knights on horseback ready for a tournament joust.  I knew I had spotted a shot that I could “fix”.  There was just something that told me that the first guy had an advantage over the rest…

    Wine tasting     Together with some friends I started a private wine tasting club in June 2000.  Members have come and gone, I am the only one who is left since 2000.  Since 2005 we are the same 7 people meeting four times a year for wine tasting and having a …

English version can be found below! Daar we in Trondheim zouden uitstappen moesten we vroeg op want de boot zou daar al om 6.30 uur aanleggen. Na uitchecken en de autosleutels weer in ontvangst nemen vertrokken we uiteindelijk om 7.00 uur. In Trondheim zelf, het was nu eenmaal zaterdag, was het no…