Norwegian Coast Cruise 2012 Trondheim Page

After a dull walk through the docks, the city is a mixture of some old buildings & some new ones, not always well-considered from an architectural point of view. We went to the ancient Church of Our Lady, which had a café we did not use & a bare interior but with a baroque altar piece, incongruous in a Lutheran church & some black & white paintings.

Var Frue Kirke

Entrance lobby

Paintings on the organ

Altar

I asked & was told it was Church of Norway i.e. Lutheran. Then, on our way to the big godshop, we happened upon a street which it turned out had been the main street of Trondheim but narrow & paved with stones in an arrow formation pointing to the sea. There was an art gallery with very good work, some of which I sneakily photoed, having done the same to some of Fred's this morning. We chatted to the owner & gave him our web site address.

Old main street

Painting in the gallery

Coloured woodcut

Then, to the cathedral but they charge to go in, so we declined & photoed the Bishop's Palace.

There was a sail-away party on the quarter deck, where we talked to people, as one does & danced. Some guy asked me in surprise, (I am an Hon. Professor of Music Composition, which people knew because of the talks I had given) if I knew the pop music Maredith (correct spelling: she's Filipina), the can-belto ship's night-club singer, was singing. I asked if he thought I had gone around for the last 60 years with my fingers in my ears.