I'll be in Trondheim until sunday, starting tomorrow, with free time from friday on. Anyone got any tips or something like that?
ATTN norwegians: Any tips for Trondheim?
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MutantScalper
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Norway is known as the "Land of the Trolls" so as a mod you'll have your work cut out there.
Seriously, only thing I can say, and I'm a Finn who's only once years ago been in Norway, is to take some time to hike a little in the country side. Not much, maybe just make your way to a low mountaintop or something. Check out a moutain brook. Gaze over the ocean.Edit. if the mountains are close by. Looking at those pics they might not be.
https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/trondelag/trondheim/things-to-do/
Seriously, only thing I can say, and I'm a Finn who's only once years ago been in Norway, is to take some time to hike a little in the country side. Not much, maybe just make your way to a low mountaintop or something. Check out a moutain brook. Gaze over the ocean.Edit. if the mountains are close by. Looking at those pics they might not be.
https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/trondelag/trondheim/things-to-do/
aenemic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Yeah, go to Sweden instead. Everything's cheaper. And there are no norwegians.
I'd rather go to Sweden, but my project meeting is in Trondheim, so no dice 
I guess you could burn a church...?
Sergeant Politeness
Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
Hey, that song ain't bad.
I'm from Trondheim, but I'd be of little help as I am away for now, and will be swamped in moving and furniture shopping when I'm finally back :I
Trondheim is a very tourist friendly city if you are a wealthy German, in that it has a small centre and thus quite easy to navigate, and it has all the usual comforts a German would be used to, like expensive coffee bars and other expensive shopping. If you want beer, you'd be better off with good old Prague, our beer is probably the most expensive in the world, and as such, the most expensive in the entire universe.
Like Mutantscalper says, if you like hiking you can exit the city by virtually any direction in 10-20 minutes by car/bus. If you like to hang out with other Germans, go to Bakklandet, which our only real "tourist area"
Here you can enjoy tiny, brightly colored wooden houses and expensive coffee, and you can probably find places to eat actual "traditional food", like salmon or cod or herring, expensively of course - that goes without saying!
If you like to just stand and gawk at stuff, you can always go to the Nidaros cathedral, which is visible from anywhere
(gawking is free, so I recommend it!)
Or you can hang out at the Fortress park
it's also visible from anywhere in the centre. From the Fortress we stopped an army of 10 000 unwashed SWEDES from invading our proud Fatherland, we kept them at bay, with muskets and cannon fire, and they DIED LIKE MAGGOTS of dysentery in the THOUSANDS untill the final 6000 or so had to retreat across the mountains, BACK to Sweden. Only a couple of hundred made it, since they all FROZE TO DEATH in the NORWEGIAN FREEZING COLD!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolean_Death_March
If you go there, remember to stretch your clenched fists towards the sky, and bellow out a great victorious cry, it is customary! Also, this park has a lot of stoners, look around for any, if you wanna score some weed.
If you want vikingy stuff, there's two options - both are sort of tricky to find -
one is the science museum, the easyest way is to find the "Leutenhaven" garage, and simply circle around it, untill you spot:
which is not the main entrance, but used to be - either way, you should find the entrance easily enough once you spotted the building.
The other is an outdoors, open air museum, around the castle ruins of Sverresborg. I guess a taxi would be the best way to get there, but - it's gonna cost ya!
I'm a bit of a heremit, so these are the most obvious of attractions, I guess if you absolutely want to, you can go to the TV/Radio tower, which has a rotating restaurant, where you can eat really expensive dinner, while experiencing nauseating vertigo - AND spinning around, to make you nice and dizzy.
Also visible from anywhere.
Trondheim is a very tourist friendly city if you are a wealthy German, in that it has a small centre and thus quite easy to navigate, and it has all the usual comforts a German would be used to, like expensive coffee bars and other expensive shopping. If you want beer, you'd be better off with good old Prague, our beer is probably the most expensive in the world, and as such, the most expensive in the entire universe.
Like Mutantscalper says, if you like hiking you can exit the city by virtually any direction in 10-20 minutes by car/bus. If you like to hang out with other Germans, go to Bakklandet, which our only real "tourist area"
Here you can enjoy tiny, brightly colored wooden houses and expensive coffee, and you can probably find places to eat actual "traditional food", like salmon or cod or herring, expensively of course - that goes without saying!
If you like to just stand and gawk at stuff, you can always go to the Nidaros cathedral, which is visible from anywhere
(gawking is free, so I recommend it!)
Or you can hang out at the Fortress park
it's also visible from anywhere in the centre. From the Fortress we stopped an army of 10 000 unwashed SWEDES from invading our proud Fatherland, we kept them at bay, with muskets and cannon fire, and they DIED LIKE MAGGOTS of dysentery in the THOUSANDS untill the final 6000 or so had to retreat across the mountains, BACK to Sweden. Only a couple of hundred made it, since they all FROZE TO DEATH in the NORWEGIAN FREEZING COLD!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolean_Death_March
If you go there, remember to stretch your clenched fists towards the sky, and bellow out a great victorious cry, it is customary! Also, this park has a lot of stoners, look around for any, if you wanna score some weed.
If you want vikingy stuff, there's two options - both are sort of tricky to find -
one is the science museum, the easyest way is to find the "Leutenhaven" garage, and simply circle around it, untill you spot:
which is not the main entrance, but used to be - either way, you should find the entrance easily enough once you spotted the building.
The other is an outdoors, open air museum, around the castle ruins of Sverresborg. I guess a taxi would be the best way to get there, but - it's gonna cost ya!
I'm a bit of a heremit, so these are the most obvious of attractions, I guess if you absolutely want to, you can go to the TV/Radio tower, which has a rotating restaurant, where you can eat really expensive dinner, while experiencing nauseating vertigo - AND spinning around, to make you nice and dizzy.
Also visible from anywhere.
Hm, I'll see what I can do.
I already know about the beer from my last trip to Norway. The only tolerable norwegian beer I had so far was Frydenlund Bayer, and it's like 88 fucking kroner in my hotel's bar. Fuck that shit.
I already know about the beer from my last trip to Norway. The only tolerable norwegian beer I had so far was Frydenlund Bayer, and it's like 88 fucking kroner in my hotel's bar. Fuck that shit.
I'm a bit of a troglodyte, but quickly checked prices, and "Mormors Stue" is still the most affordable to go have a beer - at 55-70 krones
If you wanna day-time-drink, go to "Cafè Ni muser" (it is well known, and a stone-throw from the Cathedral, along the same road) at 59 krones, with a heavy hipster atmosphere
I'm in Spain out the week, and had a couple of beers the other night, and I think I paid 2 Euros a pint
The "Mormors" I mentioned, I used to hang there back in the day, and they boasted 30 krones a pint, this is almost a decade ago.
Ridiculous prices, really...
What you're basically saying is that there are no wooden churches to burn down?
I'm not sure about the chemistry of it, but apparently the soap-stone used to build the cathedral here is flammable
Maybe not VERY flammable, but it's something I've heard before, and Varg and other black metal musicians were also excited about it, untill they got kids and jobs and responsabilities, and could no longer dream of burning stone churches
MutantScalper
Dogmeat
Or Hass could just go to a Norwegian supermarket and walk out with a six- or a twelvepack of beer of his choice. And then openly, in the street, drink it. Out of a plastic bag, Finnish hobo-style. Or he could even smuggle, like, a bottle of hard liquer from Germany. Cheap buzz.
I did find this if you want to reminisce old, WW 2, times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_I
I did find this if you want to reminisce old, WW 2, times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_I
He could also go to Hegra fortress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegra_Fortress where a small Tronder force held off a multitude of Germans. Since Germans weren't really interested in keeping body-counts of their own losses, we don't know the exact number. A few hundreds seem a fair consensus. It was the last fortress in Norway to officially surrender, but only because they realized there were nobody else offering resistance. Trondheim seems to be the spot where foreign invaders grind to a halt, we're almost like Finns! *hi fives MutantScalper* 
Seriously, what is it with the craft beer here? Every single one seems to be specifically made to be as disgusting as possible. I get that you can't afford more than one, but do you really need the feeling of puking from too much beer so much that you drink beer that makes you puke immediately?
Fuck.
Anyway, town's seriously beautiful. Work on your beer and I might emigrate after my PhD.
Also, Varg's still a nutcase. If only he'd stop making good music...
Fuck.
Anyway, town's seriously beautiful. Work on your beer and I might emigrate after my PhD.
Also, Varg's still a nutcase. If only he'd stop making good music...
I'm still in España, but glad you're enjoying our lame little town - erm - METROPOLIS and 3rd largest city of Norway (if someone DARES claim it is Stavanger-Sandnes, you punch them square in the mouth for me, okay?)
If you want to seriously projectile vomit, you should ask for a Hansa beer (Bergensian brand, and a chemical weapon of mass demoralization)
While you're there, get a DDE record to your headphones, to really get into the local vibe of things, such as "Rompa mi" (, my butt), a (seriously) great hit of the (actual) genre Tronder-rock, and since you're in luck, a German translation of the same song:
Well, I found three english/scottish pubs all very close to each other. The scottish one does have a few nice single malts and the prices are somewhat tame (92 kroner for a pint of Newcastle. At least now it's not the taste that makes me puke). Gonna check out the other two later.
I ate at Mormors Stue, but the beers there were also at least 76 kroner.
My guess is that the beer prices are the reason why so many young women here run around with grey hair.
I ate at Mormors Stue, but the beers there were also at least 76 kroner.
My guess is that the beer prices are the reason why so many young women here run around with grey hair.
Have you checked if their pubes are grey?