The trip from Narvik south to Trondheim
starts by bus since the only train into Narvik is mainly for carrying
iron ore from mines to the port. The train tracks just don't go south
from here.
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The bus ride goes through gorgeous fjord
scenery, like what we saw in New Zealand, only more so.
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The glacier-carved landscape is just so much
more dramatic than the mountains I'm used to seeing in the lower 48
states in America.
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At one point, the bus pulls
onto a ferry for a 25-minute fjord crossing. In the ferry cafe, I get
this cup of chocolate milk. The ingredients list says that it is rich in
skummetmelkpulver goodness. Yum.
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We get off the bus at Fauske and catch a
train down the coast to Trondheim. More fantastic scenery. As we get
further south, the mountains get smaller and the farms get bigger.
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The cathedral in Trondheim has a very
impressive gallery of saints. The rest of the cathedral is pretty
ordinary except for the odd green tint to the walls.
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Trondheim is rich in wireless networks and so
we have an easy time getting connected. Here we're in a fancy wine bar
getting the cheapest thing on the menu so we can sit in the warm space
and update the web page. The network is run by Multioffice which sells
access to the network, but it also has allows guests to log in and use
it for free for three minutes. After that, we're booted out and we have
to log in again. A small price to pay for access.
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