And we're back from our break. Hope you like the pictures. Trondheim is a very nice town to walk and tour, and even better was the fact we saw very few tourists! We bascially wandered through the town again. It was getting late so we stopped to have dinner at a corner bar where they were showing - you guessed it - a soccer match. Again, no rowdiness. I could grow to like this.
We wandered down to the harbor quite late and the temperature was getting a bit cold, we found the only strip club in Trondheim, by the way, it was tucked around the side of a storefront church, but was able to make it back to our hotel before the sun had set.
That's actually a bit of a joke, since the Sun that day did not set until 11:23 p.m.
The next day was get up, pack (well, I had to pack, my DGF luggage still had not been found), have breakfast, then go next door to a large indoor mall to see what they had. The hotel even had a door that connected itself to the mall, but with the minimum of signage on the mall side, so you could (and I did) miss it if you weren't actively searching for it. Quite nice. Anyway, after that, we checked out, walked a couple of blocks around the corner to the bus stop and boarded in due time the airport bus. Made it in good time and time not only for a quick lunch, some shopping, but also to check on the missing luggage.
This time the claims person lets us know that on the day we flew in they were having, shall we say, a dispute with the baggage handlers, and odds are the DGF's luggage never left Copenhagen!
We have a non-stop flight this time, so we enter the jet via the tarmac and settle in for the semi-short flight. When we land in Copenhagen we make our way to luggage claim....we can't believe our eyes - there are wagons full of luggage in the area. Sorted by flights, except for a few in the middle of the area which has been roped off with a sign saying "Unlabelled Bags". We check in with the SAS luggage claim desk, and they admit that there was a "work stoppage" last Sunday. We ask, and are given permission to search the racks. Believe it or not - we found her bag! It was in the "Unlabelled Bags" section. True, the airline destination tag had been removed, but her luggage ID tag was still there. Disappointing is all I can say. At least it had a happy ending.
Take another Taxi back to the Tivoli Congress Hotel. We check in and retrieve the rest of the luggage that we had stored here. Walked down to Tivoli Gardens and ate in the restaurant on the corner, opposite the Tour Information Office across the street. I had a steak sandwich which was delicious.
Walked back, detouring through the main train station. I love the old train stations, the look, the feel....back to the hotel and bed.
The last morning. Awoke, get ready, and packed everything for the flight home, using the luggage scale I have to avoid going over the allotted 50 lbs. (According to my scale, I was two pounds under. According to the airlines scale, I was right on or slightly above 50 lbs. Luckily they just slapped a "heavy" sticker onto it and sent it on its way without charging me anything.). We went down and had breakfast in Copenhagen for the last time this trip, then went back, retrieved the luggage, checked out, and arranged for a taxi to the airport. Arrived in plenty of time. Flight back went smoothly, the seat I had was better than last time, slept very little on the flight, and arrived back in San Francisco roughly three hours from when we departed Copenhagen.
Aren't Time Zones wonderful? All of our luggage made it, the town car to take us back was waiting, and we made it home before dark.
The end.
Final Thoughts...for now.
If you've made it all the way through the report I thank you. The
Disney cruise, my sixth now, was still as enjoyable as the first one.
We're already planning another one for next year!
Thoughts.....
Gentlemen (Ladies, please forgive this next bit, but this is something that has been bugging me for the last couple of cruises, and yes, I have made mention of it on the survey you drop off the last day.) So Gentlemen, let me ask you a question. Have you noticed in the men's restrooms there are hooks to hang your jackets? You have? Handy things, aren't they? SO WHY AREN'T THERE ANY BATHROOM HOOKS IN THE ADULT SECTION BATHROOM? I'm talking about the one the serves Keys, Fathoms, and O'Gills Pub. Where everynight 30% of the passengers are coming from having dinner in Lumiere's and are likely to be wearing jackets. They are in other restrooms near the restaurants, but not in the one next to the adult after hours hangouts. Makes No Sense to me what so ever.
Service was good as always, although now, a month later, the only person I could name would be our cabin host Mario. Always great to talk to him.
I didn't go to Fathoms for the adult shows as much this time around. Did see the ventriliquist, and he was very funny. Clara in Keys was delightful.
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Loved the itinery, but as I may have mentioned before, I wish we could have stayed longer in some of the Ports. Would have loved to have just a few more hours in Stockholm, for example. But a lot of it seemed to be nine to five. The main exception, of course, being St. Petersberg.
Copenhagen was the perfect city to begin and end our adventure in. I can't stress two things before you go and while you're there
A) Get good walking shoes and break them in. Walk around a mall or go to a nearby city and walk for a couple of hours to get used to walking. Copenhagen is a very accessible city for a tourist, with an underground, good bus system, and a rail station. We used the bus, but still ended up walking over ten miles the day we returned from the cruise.
B) Watch out for the people riding the Bikes!
And my final thought....Can't wait to go back to Scandanavia. The countries there are beautiful in the summer.
See ya real soon!
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Stockholm. We booked the "Best of Drottningholm" " tour, and this was the tour that got switched from afternoon to morning for us. So 9:15 saw us in the Promanade lounge for once for our tour. We were off the ship in no time and met by today's tour guide, Niklas. He of the Fedora and mustache. 
It was located quite near the statue of Olav Tryggvason, the founder of Trondheim. He stands on a large column in the market square. The column and the design on the pavement becomes a sundial during the long days. Off in a corner of the square is a monument to the unknown shopper. 
Looking from the Bakke Bridge from Near the Train Station down the Nidelva River towards the Cathedral
On the Old Bridge
Approaching the Nidaros Cathedral from the River
The Arch Bishops Palace looking towards the Cathedral.
The Front of the Cathedral - imo one to rival Notre Dame in Paris.
Exhibit from the Cathedral. One of the musuems on site contained the Royal Jewels!
One of the many statues in Trondheim. This one by the Harbour is known as "The Last Viking"
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