Here's more meat about my trip- Day 2: Trondheim and Nithadaros Cathedral

Day 2- Trondheim & Nithadaros Cathedral

This day, my mum and I went NTNU campus to get my student card and semester card settled. Then, we took a rather scenic walk, down to the Nidelva River, across the old town bridge and to the Nithadaros Cathedral.

View of Nithadaros Cathedral over Nidelva River Bank

Front view of entrance to the cathedral

We paid 50NOK per person (about 13 SG dollars) for entrance to the Cathedral and the Archbishop's palace next to it. As the guided tour for the Archbishop's palace was commencing 10 mins after we arrived, we decided to tour the Archishop's palace grounds 1st. In the central square of the palace, we saw Norweigians dressed in medival ages costumes, playing instruments and singing. Here's a interesting video clip.

Hmmmz... we weren't allowed to take photos inside the palace, which has a very grand main hall and one of the inner rooms has art motiffs extending as one continuous picture from the walls to the ceiling. After the guided tour of the Archbishop's Palace ended, we proceeded to the main attraction- the Nithadaro's cathedral. It's one of the largest cathedrals in Europe and is the largest catherdral in Northern Europe. Similarly, we had a guided tour of the cathedral and photography wasn't allowed within the cathedral halls. (Hmmmz... a trivia for the christians out there who are reading my blog: The guide mentioned that this John guy in the Bible got baptised in this cathedral. ) However, there were scheduled timings for climb up to the top of the church towers.... Man, it was kinda scary with the 172 spiralling steps and the stairway was narrow. Urrgh.... Kinda freaked out since I was claustrophobic. But the climb up to the top of the tower was worth it.

Finally.... a long overdue update.

Hi all,

Sorry for the seeming empty promises to upload the photos of my tour of Trondheim and western Norway with my mum (31/07/06- 10/08/06) in my blog. (To those who thinking I'm still MIA- FYI, I'm on SEP in Norway and will only be back in Jan 07!), In any case, I have uploaded the full set of photos on webshots- http://community.webshots.com/user/sanchoo & http://community.webshots.com/user/icemanjq

The above links can also be found on the "Ice Bridges" section of my blog.

I'll give a brief overview of my first 2 weeks or so in Norway, with selection of a few photos. Okay, so I'll start with Day 1:

Day 1- Amsterdam Schnipol Airport to Norway, Trondheim Moholt Student Village

We arrived at Amsterdam Schnipol airport at about 5.30am (Eastern Europe Time, GMT +1) and checked out the Rijelsk Museum at Schinpol Airport. Quite a few wonderful paintings over there I muz say. I love the picture of the bread and fruit spread.

Made me hungry and my mum and I grabbed our breakfast (nutty apple pie and coffee) at the cafe in front of the museum. After which, we went through passport control for the Schnegen area (meaning the scandanavian countries) in the airport. Kinda weird to have passport control between different gates.

Feeling bored throughout the wait, we went to the communication centre to use the internet. Cost like 3 euros to use the internet for 15 minutes. Dat's like 6 sing dollars. Freaking expensive. Haha... Den we sat around and wait for our next flight to Trondheim at 11.20am (It was delayed till 11.55am). Super sianz.... Fortunately for us, our flight arrived in Trondheim on time at 1.30pm. My mum immediately went to the ticket office for KLM to confirm her return flight and by the time we boarded the airport shuttle bus, it was already 2.30pm. Saw lots of nice scenery on the airport shuttle and felt that I've kinda entered Andersen's fairytale land. Haha... See this pic for Urself.

We alighted from the airport shuttle bus at the city centre and took a cab to the Moholt Student Village Reception to find out which student village I'm gonna stay at. Haha... The housing office was closed at 3pm and we arrived at 3.20pm. Damn sianz... Heng they had resident assts who can collect the key from the office. We waited for another half an hour for him to arrive. Finally, he passed me the keys to my apartment in Moholt Student Village. I'm so glad that it's not Steinan or anything, can't imagine taking another cab again... so by the time my mum and I shifted my luggage here, it was already like 5pm. Haha... Turns out that I'm sharing an apartment with 4 other students. Only one of the rooms is occupied by a Norweigian who happens to be on vacation. Haha... My mum showed me how to cook a simple dinner and we called it a day!

Magnificent waterfall at Flam Valley

Sorry for the lack of updates as I'm on a whirlwind tour around Oslo, Bergen areas these few days. Had a great time seeing the scenery and stuff, not so great time walking around. Legs ache like mad. Anyway, I'll juz share a video of the most breathtaking sight I've come across- waterfall at Flam Valley. Enjoy!

Norway Days 2-4

Hi all,

Been on a hetic schedule settling admin stuff for my Uni here and also touring around the region. Wun be able to post my photos on my blog soon. Anyway, U can access them at http://community.webshots.com/album/552827709jnbMEx.

Cheers n freezes,
JQ

P.S. Interesting trivia 1: a plate of rice with cheese gravy is called dagner here. Guess was? It's pronounced as dinner(Costs 48 kroners for a large plate = S$12! OMG OMG!!!) . LOL.... and imagine that the lady at the counter ask if we want to have it but we said that we are having lunch now.

Norway Day Uno!

Hi all,

I've safely arrived at Trondheim, Norway yesterday at around 4pm local time (i.e. 10pm SG time). Haha... Been catching up on sleep, so I haven really had anytime to upload the photos. Will upload some onto my blog later. In the meantime, U all can view the photos at http://community.webshots.com/album/552715325zFuueI

Enjoy!!!

Cheers n Freezes,
JQ