Trondheim, Norway - Part 2

Keeping up to date with blog posts about our most recent travels is proving to be a challenge. But now that we have 'settled' back into a routine in Melbourne, there will be more priority placed on re-living the holiday and also eventually blogging about culture, food and travels locally in Australia. This post covers Day 3 to Day 5 where our time was spent relaxing with family, exploring Trondheim and finalizing details of the African and Asian parts of our trip.

Cooking a Spider Crab Leg
After Mei's excited purchase of one very long and expensive spider crab leg, much discussion took place regarding how to cook the piece of seafood. The bbq was put forward as an option, but the lack of gas in the bottle put that idea to rest. The oven grill saved the day, with a quick marinade of spices and butter resulting in an delicate sweet-tasting appetizer - the best crab-meat we have ever tasted.

Spider crab leg pre-cooking

Ready for the tasting

World's first and only bicycle lift

In our first visit to Trondheim, we admired the history of the city including its place as the capital of Norway up to the 13th century. Trondheim is also famously known for the nearby village of Hell (which does freeze over in the winter) and for having the first and only bicycle lift ("Trampe"), installed in the 1990's. The free city service can be used by pushing a 'start' button on the machine and placing the right food on the starting point (the left foot remains on the pedal). As we watched the lift in action, we saw many tourists fall off after losing their balance.

Dinner: Baklandet Skydsstation
We ate dinner at a restaurant housed in an 18th century building in the historical area of Trondheim, that was once voted the best cafe of the year 2012 by National Geographic Magazine. The interior was decorated with Norwegian handicrafts including colorful textiles on the walls and floor.

The menu leaned towards traditional Norwegian cuisine, including fish soup, cod and reindeer. Olie was keen to try Norwegian beer whilst Michelle and Mei drank white wine.

 

After dinner, we went for a walk to make the most of the long summer daylight hours. The photos below are of Trondheim's colourful old warehouse buildings along the bank of the Nidelva River.

On the way back to the car, we passed by a pedestrian walkway lined with planks of wood artistically arranged to look like falling dominoes. We also continued our little obsession with photographing pretty historic looking manhole covers. In other cities in Europe, they are decorated with the city's emblem, flag or castle.

Goodbye Norway

On our last day in Norway, we ate a tasty meal of the regional dish "sodd" - a soup made of mutton, meatballs, potatoes and carrots; that we had enjoyed eating on our first visit to Trondheim in 2012.

Then it was off to the airport to say our goodbyes to Marius, Michelle and Anton; and most importantly to recover the missing cue stick that had finally made its way to Norway five days later than expected.

Next blog post:

Bologna, Italy

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