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.

Trondheim, Norway - Part 1

When we started our '5in5months' adventure in August 2015, there was an optimistic goal of writing a blog post every day of the trip. This meant that for 130+ consecutive days, we would need to think of something interesting to write than just food pics and comments about our hotel room. That initiative was soon abandoned and instead 'eventually' we will write more detailed recap posts with tips and stories that will be more useful to our readers. Kicking off the first blog post, we set the scene - a Thursday morning in August and we are off to Gatwick Airport. Sounds simple enough, except of all days, there was a Tube Strike.

Trondheim, Norway

The traditional Christmas scene that you see on cards, snow-globes and chocolate tins is that of powder-white pine trees, family gatherings and plenty of food and drink. Christmas 2012 will be etched in our festive memories as our first White Christmas and proper Northern Hemisphere celebration in the land of the Vikings - Trondheim, Norway. On this trip we stayed with Michelle and Marius, met our extended family, ate traditional food (including brown cheese and reindeer) and relaxed indoors next to a real pine Christmas tree whilst temperatures outside fell to -15 degrees Celsius.