Saturday, July 28, 2007
Trondheim-lich maneuver
Well I took the train from stockholm up through the woods and wilderness of northern sweden. Unfortunately the 2nd class seats were all filled up so i bought a bunkbed onboard...its weird i think if u buy on board u have a better chance of getting one all by urself, which i did while other people were in with 3 or 4 other people. All well. So I slept and woke up every once and while and saw the scenery which reminded me of Maine. Eventually we got to the border station and had to change trains at about 10 in the morning. It was freezing and raining, so cold...but got on the norwegian train and headed to norway. First stop was hell, yeh thats what it was called. And it was cold in hell, really cold. Kept going and got to trondheim, it was cold there too and drizzling but i managed. It had an almost venice shaped layout, with a "grand canal" sort of river winding through diving the old city and the port from all the newer stuff. Surfed the web in the library for a bit then headed out and explored. I had intended on meeting up with some norwegians i had met that were from trondheim but it turned out they got back just the nite of the day i got there so it wasnt happening. Looked around, was reminded of lafayette overlooking the delaware at this one riverbend. Beautiful old church, and some really cool old wharfs that looked alot like the ones in gdansk, maybe trondheim was also hanseatic? dunno. I know bergen was. Well I look about for some more but decide the cold is making me angry (reminiscent of Madrid the first time) so I got on the train to Oslo. I never get reservations which makes the train dudes unhappy but they let me go...which i did again for that. I got to oslo, found a hostel, checked in and headed out into the city everyone told me to skip....
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