Trondheim through all seasons

Starbucks is coming to town

@brittarnhild

Starbucks is coming to Trondheim.
The first coffee shop will open at the airport in September,
then two more will open downtown in October.

I have mixed feelings.
I love frappucinos and free wifi at Starbucks around the world,
but I am afraid they will kill the small, individual coffee shops
which you find a lot of in Trondheim.

I love the coffee shops of Trondheim.
When I am out on my Trondheim photo walks
I always sit down with a cappuccino, or some other coffee:
As often as possible on different coffee shops.

Most often I am alone,
or I can be lucky and meet my oldest son ;-)

I will probably visit a Starbucks from time to time.
But I will make sure not to forget the rest of the coffee houses in Trondheim.
They are to precious!

Meeting up with a friend

Home from vacation in Croatia and Bosnia&Herzegovina. Meeting up with a friend. Sharing travel tales.

Fairytale Cupcakes is the parfect place to meet,

Surprise, surprise. Macarons in Trondheim

Fairytale Cupcakes, the new café, started to make macarons last week.

How I lost my innocence 

Fairytale Cupcakes, time for coffee

 
I have told you before. I love, love, love it when I find a new cafe or coffee shop in Trondheim. No Starbucks for me!

 
 A few weeks ago we discovered some works going on behind the windows in a small place close to where our oldest son lives. The sign Fairytale Cupcakes caught our interest. Was this going to be shop for cupcakes equipments or what?

Our youngest daughterloves to bake cupcakes, but so far there are no places in Trondheim where she can buy, and then I mean really BUY, what she needs. I have bought gifts for her from Copenhagen and Oslo, and she has been to Oslo herself to find more stuff for her great hobby, but a store in Trondheim would be perfect.

Well, when this place opened it was almost even better. A cafe, a tiny little coffee house, a cupcake heaven.

But no cafés were open yet.......

Sunday morning in the city. I know I am a morning bird, but still......why are there no cafés open before 10am?

I am in need of a cappuccino......

.......and Murano (Venice) is too far away.

The more cafés I passed, the more thirsty I became.

 
Well, at least there were alot of great places to shoot with my Nikon.

Then, at last.......I found an open place. At the same time I met a friend, it was her birthday and I could buy her a cappuccino. It is always nice to have coffee with friends :-)

Coffee at Jordbærpikene

Jordbærpikene, The Strawberry Girls, is a local based coffee shop chain. Often too busy for my liking, but today we were lucky and got a window table at Trondheim Torg.

 
Luck for me, the section of healthy food is better than the sweets.

The window table gaveus a view right over the the Theatre.

   

Te og kaffehuset in Trondheim

You don't need to visit a coffe or a tea house to get good coffee. Of course you don't! Enjoying your afternoon coffee at home, in your favorite armchair, with some music on the cdplayer, a pile of books stacked near you, a small glassbowl of chocolate or a plate with pastries........then I am almost as closed as I can come to heaven on earth.

But then you need the best coffee, the best tea of course.

I like to buy my coffee and my tea at Te&Kaffehuset AS in Trondheim, and I like to pass by the shop window to look at their window display. Especially now when the Christmas season is coming up.

 

Friday afternoon at Hjørnet

Still not to late to sit outdoors, with a blanket.....

Tea and some writing at Choco Boco

A new bright red moleskin, a pen from Krakow, a glass of tea.......

.....and hopefully some writing done.

 
  Cafe Choco Boco