Trondheim

Don’t you just love opening a new soap? This month’s is vervain and lemon.

To reinforce my better mood today I am wearing a cheerful orange trouser and pug dog sock combo. The sweater is fairly normal as I don’t want to appear weird. The sun is shining and Graham has lured me into continuing north with the promise of Northern Europe’s largest phallus on the demurely named island of Dønna, and the summer markets of Trondheim. We may even get to the rock carvings in Alta at this pace.

to the old town of Trondheim

Trondheim was our destination du jour and we arrived around 2pm to a free aire conveniently located near the centre of town. I must say Trondheim has been my favourite Norwegian city so far. It has a definite centre and a very large cathedral which we visited today and had a very nice tour guide called Nora. Nora recommended we come back for the organ recital at 1740 hours which we duly did as the organ has been restored and became fully functional only on May 17^th this year.

We stayed for the first piece but I could not quite sit through the Adaggio which should have read A-dirge-io. It can be said I am not a massive fan of organ music though Mr Fluffy seemed more keen. The town itself is quite large but has a small town feel. It’s on a river, a fjord, and the sea, so has a pleasant maritime feel. Lovely colourful buildings line the river’s edge and all seems well with the world.

Tonight we are eating Sodd.

dinner anyone?

 Having thought we’d like to try some local Norwegian food without robbing a bank, we purchased the amusingly named Sodd to see what could possibly be in such a tin. I am using my ipad translating device and have discovered that Sodd contains the balls of a chicken with the fat of cattle, onions (or a locomotive), sellerirot (hopefully that is not rotting celery), and other ingredients which didn’t show up for translation. I would hate to meet the chicken whose balls were contained therein as they were a bit on the large side – he would have had a very funny walk.

Tomorrow we will have a look around the summer market then head north phallus bound, maybe overnighting in Steinkjer due to its amusing name.