Wednesday 31/12:
After Christmas comes New Years Eve, so I guess you all have figured out what this post is gone be about. I am gone add in some information about Trondheim also, the town where I study and second home to me.
I have a lot of my friends in Trondheim, so we all ended up celebrating New Years Eve there. I took the train up with some of my friends on the 30th and the train down on the 1st. That didn’t leave a lot of time in Trondheim, but I did take a trip around town with my camera.
But first to give you some perception of distances and longitude, here is a map of Norway and the biggest cities. Oslo is the capital, and the biggest one. Kongsberg is to small to appear on the map, but lies a little south west of Oslo. Bergen is the next biggest city in Norway, and Trondheim the one after that, depending on how you count.
So Trondheim is further north than Kongsberg, and darker because of that. But it is actually a bit warmer than Kongsberg because of the Gulfstream that carries warm water up the west cost of Norway. That makes the Trondheim weather in winter change between snow, slush and ice… mostly slush and ice. The pictures I took are an example of this, and pretty gray and gloomy. But even so, Trondheim is a great town, I promise.
Nidaros Chatedral
The student society in Trondheim. Every sixth inhabitant in Trondheim is a student, so that makes Trondheim a really fun city to study in. Here is the main building of NTNU, my university.
Bakkelandet, a pretty area in Trondheim.
Now I will just explain about the Norwegian New Years Eve and then I will be done. New Years Eve is a night to party. You watch fireworks as the New Year starts, drink Champaign, and that’s that. In Norway it has been legal for everyone to send up fireworks up until this year, now we can only use the ground ones. I felt safer this New Years Eve because of the ban, but I also missed having the whole sky lit up bye fireworks. The bigger cities still have fireworks for people to see, and we where lucky and lived really close to Trondheim’s firework, sent up at Trondheim fort.
Happy New Year everyone!
