Coming into Christensen this afternoon, the guy washing bird poop off the big orange ship became playful with his hose as we passed. Look closely at the first picture, and you'll see how small he seems standing out there on the sloping deck. He was tethered to his ship, and I thought it must be great fun to be standing out there on the edge above the city and all the little boats. The guy was obviously enjoying himself.
Margaret and I aren't in jail here. We are in Trondheim near a peaceful river. We stopped in this city on the way up the coast a couple of weeks ago. It is a very livable place. The Nazis controlled this city and all of Norway from 1940 until the end of the war. Because of the strategic location of Trondheim, The Germans expected the invasion of allied forces to happen somewhere in this area.
I very much like the doors to this building in Trondheim. They look like something from an Ibsen play. I have the feeling I could walk through them and meet some of the familiar characters from any of his plays. I would expect them not to have noticed that today is an exceptionally bright, summer day in Southern Norway. The window below is one in a long row of windows in the summer palace of the reigning queen and king of Norway. Apparently the queen is much, much more cheerful than most of the characters in Norwegian literature or the subjects of Edvard Munch's paintings.
In the larger Norwegian cities, bicycles are provided free of charge. You put 200 kronen in the slot, take the bicycle, return it later to any bicycle station, put it back in a rack, and you get your money back when the bike locks into the rack.
THE LOOSE BIRDS... In Norway the people who drop out of the regular social system and wind up on the street are called “Loose Birds.” These are the prostitutes, drug addicts, and anybody who decides not to accept the government’s guarantee of housing, food and health care. St. Mary’s Church in Trondheim is the only church in Norway that had people in it doing anything but listening to a concert rehearsal or taking pictures. Here the loose birds can come in the morning for coffee and food. At least eight hundred hears old, the church was built in medieval times. St. Mary’s and the cathedral were, of course, Roman Catholic until Norway became officially Lutheran. Kings and queens of Norway are crowned in the cathedral. The Medieval Christian church was established in Norway by King Olaf. Not far away from St. Mary’s Church a tall column rises from a public square with Good King Olaf standing over a heretic’s head that he has just chopped off of a guy who declined the offer to become a Christian.
Coming into Christensen this afternoon, the guy washing bird poop off the big orange ship became playful with his hose as we passed. Look closely at the first picture, and you'll see how small he seems standing out there on the sloping deck. He was tethered to his ship, and I thought it must be great fun to be standing out there on the edge above the city and all the little boats. The guy was obviously enjoying himself. 
Margaret and I aren't in jail here. We are in Trondheim near a peaceful river. We stopped in this city on the way up the coast a couple of weeks ago. It is a very livable place. The Nazis controlled this city and all of Norway from 1940 until the end of the war. Because of the strategic location of Trondheim, The Germans expected the invasion of allied forces to happen somewhere in this area.
I very much like the doors to this building in Trondheim. They look like something from an Ibsen play. I have the feeling I could walk through them and meet some of the familiar characters from any of his plays. I would expect them not to have noticed that today is an exceptionally bright, summer day in Southern Norway. The window below is one in a long row of windows in the summer palace of the reigning queen and king of Norway. Apparently the queen is much, much more cheerful than most of the characters in Norwegian literature or the subjects of Edvard Munch's paintings.
In the larger Norwegian cities, bicycles are provided free of charge. You put 200 kronen in the slot, take the bicycle, return it later to any bicycle station, put it back in a rack, and you get your money back when the bike locks into the rack. 
THE LOOSE BIRDS... In Norway the people who drop out of the regular social system and wind up on the street are called “Loose Birds.” These are the prostitutes, drug addicts, and anybody who decides not to accept the government’s guarantee of housing, food and health care. St. Mary’s Church in Trondheim is the only church in Norway that had people in it doing anything but listening to a concert rehearsal or taking pictures. Here the loose birds can come in the morning for coffee and food. At least eight hundred hears old, the church was built in medieval times. St. Mary’s and the cathedral were, of course, Roman Catholic until Norway became officially Lutheran. Kings and queens of Norway are crowned in the cathedral. The Medieval Christian church was established in Norway by King Olaf. Not far away from St. Mary’s Church a tall column rises from a public square with Good King Olaf standing over a heretic’s head that he has just chopped off of a guy who declined the offer to become a Christian.
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