@brittarnhild
Ok, I can admit it. I am not a big fan of cars. I like to drive, I like it when Terje drives, I like the car to take me from one point to another. And that's about all.
Still, finding downtown Trondheim filled with vintage cars this morning, kind of charmed me.
So tell me, what does a car, or cars, mean to you?
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@brittarnhild
I don't watch many movies, but I have heard of the movie Troll, though never seen it. And I know there will be a sequel, a Troll 2, and actually, it is being filmed in Trondheim just now.
I was downtown this morning, to meet some of my old colleagues, all seniors now, for our monthly lunch, and while walking over Elgeseter bridge, on my way to the café, I could not help watching part of the film crew busy making preparations.
Quite a few changes were done to the landscape, and my guess is that when the movies is out, it will be hard to actually recognise the area.
No actors to be seen, I have read that the filming will happen after darkness has fallen. Still interesting things to see :-)
Have you seen Troll?
Will you see Troll 2?
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@brittarnhild
On a glorious winter day, when better than to drive down to the fjord for a hike.
Blue sky, blue fjord, too cold for the sailboats to be out sailing.
Absolutely perfect for a hike.
Along the walk we stopped at this cozy place for coffee and vafler.
A few brave people sat outside, we decided to go for more warmth indoors.
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@brittarnhild
For 20 years I used to work downtown. Every single workday I took the bus down, and I often used to go again on Saturday or Sunday mornings, for a hike, for photographing, for sitting down in a café writing.
I have been retired for almost four years now, and there are sometimes weeks between I go downtown. I do miss it, but somehow the days are always so filled with other plans and tasks.
But then there are days when we have errands to do. We could of course go to one of the many shopping centres around the city, but we prefer "the real stuff", to walk the old streets of the city center, take a coffee somewhere, lunch in another place, do our errands, and also go for an extra walk, just to enjoy the town.
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The Art and Crafts Museum in Trondheim is closed due to a major renovation of the building. Meanwhile they have small exhibitions in this small building, Gråmølna.
There are many small art museums and galleries in Trondheim. Today is a rainy day, and Terje and I decided to go downtown to visit an exhibition with art made by our Royal Highness Queen Sonja. Unfortunately the exhibit will not open until later today, so instead we went to this Art and Crafts place, where there is for the moment an exhibition connected to the Art and Crafts Movement - really a favourite of mine.
Only last week I learned about the Norwegian textile artist Frida Hansen and her art nouveau tapestries, inspired by gardens and flowers. Frida Hansen was born in Stavanger in 1855 and died in Oslo in 1931. The Norwegian National Gallery wrote about her in a post on Facebook last week, which caught my interest. I stated to read about her, and was pleasantly surprised yesterday when a friend sent me a message to let me know that one of Hansen´s tapestries were to be seen at Gråmølna.
And today I was able to study and enjoy the tapestry myself. Here is a small piece of it, you can see the whole tapestry in the previous picture.
After we visited the home of Karin and Carl Larsson in Sweden back in August, I have been studying Karin Larsson´s work. And as always, one thing leads to another, Karin Larsson was inspired by the Art and Crafts Movement, so I have also dug out my books about Willian Morris and his daughter May Morris.
I was very pleased today to find two of Willian Morris´works on display at Gråmølna.
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Over the last few years I have been playing artistically with my knitting. I already know that Karin Larsson will inspire me in my future work, probably William and May Morris as well, and now I am curious to see more of Frida Hansen´s textile art.
I took loads of pictures today, and here is one more impression I want to share with you. An embroidery inspired by the Patheon in Rome, sewn on wall, using strands of hair from horses, made by the Icelandic artist Málfridur Adalsteinsdottir.
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@brittarnhild
I had an appointment downtown near the harbour this morning. I was out early, the day was beautiful and I went for a walk along the fjord. A very special ship is visiting Trondheim these days, the three-masted barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl. During the weekend it was possible to get on board as a visitor. We did not have the chance to do that, but seeing it today was also quite something.
The ship was built in Germany in 1914, and in 1921 it was bought by the Norwegian cabinet minister Kristofer Lehmkuhl. Statsråd is the Norwegian word for cabinet minister, hence the name.
You can read more about Statsraad Lehmkuhl here.
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@brittarhild
Our 4th grandchild, Eline, born in August.
Today we have been downtown walking with Eline and her mother, our daughter in law.
A beautiful day, and as I like best, our walk took us down to the fjord and the canal.
Old boats, old houses.
I love my city.
Come to Trondheim, and I will take you along.
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Terje and I had sushi today. In a restaurant downtown.
Restaurant on a Monday night is not something we do, actually, but this was a gift treated us back in the fall, and finally we had time to use it.
We both LOVE sushi, and the meal today was very good. Well, very, very good I would say.
And of course a special treat since it was a gift, and on a Monday.
We had "chef's choice of nigiri, sashimi and maki"
We had a window table, and I loved watching the channel, boats and the old fish market (sadly the fish market closed not long ago.
Darkness fell while we were sitting there, and made the view even better.
And better.
I love every day life, especially every day life like today :-)
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@brittarnhild
Well, I know that many of you have kind of fallen in love with Trondheim through my Trondheim posts, haha, so when I was downtown one morning last week I thought of you when I took my photos,
Red hearts, red flowers in front of the cathedral.
Down by the river.
The Old City Bridge kind of laced by leaves.
If you come to Trondheim we can sit down and have a chat on this red bench. The yellow rose is the symbol of Trondheim, The Trondheim Rose.
Or we can have coffee in our of our cafés.
What do you prefer?
Coffee or a red bench on the bridge?
And more images from Trondheim?
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Do not forget to visit my latest video, where you can come with me downtown, you can come for a walk in my garden and also a hike in our hills:
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As society here in Norway is slowly opening up, and we are now allowed to meet 20 people together, as long as we wash our hands, stay one meter apart, no handshakes, no hugs, my colleagues decided it was full time to arrange a feast to say thanks to me for my 20 years working for the diocese. I had my first work day there Mai 1st 2000, the last work day May 1st 2020.
We started just after work ended, with a two hours long walk around town to look at old trees and a few gardens. Sure, my old colleagues know me well and knew that this was something I would love.
A glorious day, glorious people, glorious trees. I let myself be filled and walked around with a smile on my face. Like in so many other cities, Trondheim has a huge amount of old and also some new trees. Many of them, well, I guess all of them, have a history, and yesterday afternoon we were told the history of many of them. And their names.
I am often wandering around in the city, looking at houses, birds, flowers, but never have I walked around focusing especially on trees. What an eye opener.
I knew the name of a few of the trees already, I learned a few more yesterday, but I still have a long way to go. And I will start walking that road right away :-)
The walk ended up in a restaurant downtown where we had dinner. My food was sprinkled with so many nice words, I could fly home on blessed wings.
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An updated the list of my active blogs:
Akeleiehagen - The Blue Garden (click on the picture)
Fløy en liten blåfugl - my birding journal (click on the picture)
maskerade - my knitting journal (click on the picture)
Britt Arnhilds dagboksblader - my online journal (click on the picture)
Nederst i hagen - my greenhouse diary (click on the picture)
Britt Arnhilds naturdagbok - my nature journal (click on the picture)
Hytteliv på Rastarbo - cabin life (click on the picture)
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