Category: Norway

We started the day with a lecture at the conference room about the history of the long sea routes across the Norwegian coast. Our host Howard was funny and entertaining. He gave us the history of how the cruise line industry came to be in Norway and how the two…

Lunch / Dinner We had a late start today and our first real stop on the ship was the dining hall to eat fabulous meals. Lunch consisted of lamb sausage, Norwegian fish soup and tomato salad (image below). Dinner – A three course meal with the usual seafood theme. The…

We spent the day at Trondheim today. This is Norway’s third largest city with a population of 225,000 people. We got in at 9 am and proceeded to get on a bus to visit Nidaros Cathedral. This is the front and main entrance of the church. It does look a…

Rough seas in the North Sea last night. Our ship rocked up and down and rolled left and right the entire night. It was at least 15 to 20 foot swells! After today we will head to the Norwegian Sea so hopefully sailing will be smoother. We spent most of…

We were told to check in at 3 pm but the ship hadn’t unloaded passengers from last sailing and we had to wait 45 minutes to check in. Strangely enough, for a budding new cruise industry, the building we checked in had no signs and we weren’t sure if we…

We decided to head out somewhere nice and cool this summer so we’re in Norway. So far so good and we have a few tales to tell. First and foremost, DO NOT TAKE A TAXI anywhere in Norway, they will rip you off! I should have done some due diligence…