The St Olav Festival starts in Trondheim today. This is Norway's most impressive church- and culture festival and it is arranged in and around the Nidaros cathedral. My office is in the "next door" building, The Archbishop's Palace, and the past days the area has been brimming with activity. Not easy to concentrate on working with all this going on. The festival will last for 10 days, and is filled with different events, services, concerts, opera, ballet, exhibitions and so on. A total of 300 different arrangements.
It is of course impossible to take part in all, but I have tried to read through the program and picked out my favorites.
The court outside the archbishop's place was filled with people during the opening today, so it was not easy to get a good picture. But hopefulle you can get a glimpse of what I am talking about.
After the opening Marta and I walked around in the historic market for an hour. All the people made it difficult to see all, so I will be back again several times next week.
Marta tried stone carving though. 
The Cathedral is made in a stone type called kleberstein in Norwegian. This stone is soft and easy to work with, so even children can with not much effort carve in it. Marta made an M for Marta.
After some time at the market we went downtown to meet Terje and Marta and had some pizza. And I took a series of photos of Ingrid. She usually doesn't like being photographed, so I'll take good care of these :-)
