July 21 - Trondheim, Norway
Trondheim is the third largest city in Norway with a population of just over 200,000 and it certainly feels like it. We didn't experience any traffic jams really, but there are traffic lights and lots of people about. And we saw grafitti for the first time in a long while. And for the first time since the beginning of the trip, there was another ship in port - the very large Mein Schiff 2 from Germany. (Mein Schiff translates to My Ship. Those Germans are so creative.) Looking from our deck we could see lots of apartment buildings, but I found it interesting that most of them seem to be facing each other rather than out to sea. Our tour today took us to a musical instrument museum and the cathedral. This museum houses most of the collection of Christian and Victoria somebody, who had lots of inherited money and no children. They were passionate about music and traveled the world collecting instruments. Most of them are here in the former f...