We arrived in the Norwegian port of Trondheim overnight, and it’s now noticeably colder on the balcony. We had a walking tour booked for the morning so Jane had decided to get room service for breakfast and have a lie in but I like the Grills Restaurant for breakfast so I ended up there all by myself, not just Jane-less but not one else was at breakfast at our table. That didn’t matter though I had the requisite coffee to kick start my day, a bowl of bircher muesli and a nice ham and mushroom omelette accompanied by a couple of Cumberland sausages. Suitably fed I returned to the stateroom to wrap up before heading out and broaden my Trondheim knowledge.
The tour took the stated 3 hours and we walked about 8 km with a couple of breaks for restrooms and coffees. It was really interesting to find out about somewhere that I knew nothing about and I’m really glad I did the tour, but I was very glad when it was over. I was cold, proper British cold, the type that seeps into your bones if you stand around too long and by the end my feet ere starting to ache, which I also attribute to the cold.
When we got back we went straight to the stateroom to divest ourselves of the winter coats and woolly hats before heading down to the QG restaurant for some much needed lunch. A steaming hot bowl of pea and ham soup has never been more welcomed. It was an inspired choice by whoever chose today’s menu and was lovely, the bowl was enthusiastically cleaned with a thickly buttered roll. The soup was followed by richly cheesy beef cannelloni and shock, horror, no dessert.
After lunch we went back to the stateroom to recuperate, oh! the joys of getting old. We’d thought that there wasn’t a trivia quiz being held as it was a port day so we’d not arranged to meet Pam and Max in the Carinthia Lounge. It turned out that there is a quiz on port days so we went up to get a table just in case Pam and Max did turn up. The lounge was really busy and we had to fend off several enquiries about the spare seats knowing that as soon as we gave them up Pam and Max would come rolling in, eventually Jane relented and we ended up with a couple sharing the table but not the quiz. We were appalling again 13/20 with the winners getting 17 – It’s a shame that the table sharers didn’t join us as we got a couple of the questions they got wrong and I aced the tie breaker.
After that it was Commodore O’clock, I was back on the Doombar and Jane had a Lemon Drop as I’d seen it talked about on one of the Cruise Critic Trans Atlantic threads, not impressed. We were meeting up with Pam and Max for dinner in the Bamboo Alternative dining Restaurant. This is one of the pop-up restaurants that appear as a restaurant in a restaurant taking over part of the Kings Court Buffet in the evening. The theme of the Bamboo is pan-Asian and was very good. There is normally a $30 per head up-charge, but Diamond loyalty tier members get a freebie once per cruise , so we took advantage of that, but I would happily have paid for the meal we’d just had
The meal started with a bento box selection of six amuse bouche sized morsels, I had the crispy chilli beef as a main which had a nice bit of heat to it and then a trio of Asian desserts to follow. it was an excellent meal with excellent company.