Arrived in Trondheim!

The view from the "Gamle Bybru"- the old city bridge!

We have arrived! Our apartment is in the building on the right hand side, it's the yellow one just past the middle. It's a huge apartment, 3 bedrooms, a total of 30 chairs (we counted them all!) a big TV and an xbox included. There is other peoples stuff randomly distributed about the place...economics textbooks etc. It's an excellent location, that photo is the classic Trondheim postcard.

Our living room. Note our duty free on the bottom right, we spent way too long choosing and re-purposing a piece of furniture to keep it in.

Went to get supplies from the supermarket and that's a laugh on it's own. Classic Norwegian delights of brown cheese, rotfiske and aquavit all await me- for the moment, we bought loads of fish. My favorite thing was the prawn freezer- you just scoop up as many as you want. Meat is too expensive, but salmon is great value! And potatoes- they're the only vegetable you can't import because it's pretty much the only thing they grow here and they're fiercely protective and proud of them!

The prawns were my favourite until it came time to prepare them...they're covered in eggs and the faff to flavour ratio is way off.

So far so good!

"Farvel" for now!

xox

New beginnings

Some big news- I'm moving to Norway! Initially to do my masters thesis over Summer, but on November 2nd I will be a fully fledged employee there.

As you can see, to mark the occasion I am changing the blog name, and also diversifying a bit. I'm still going to write about cooking etc. but I'm also going to try and document my new life here in the hopes that friends and family can see what I am getting up to. Potentially my experiences could be helpful to someone planning a move here themselves. 

As for the reasoning behind the new name- I believe that Bjørn is Norwegian for bear, so my regular nickname is just getting a Nordic makeover. I think the rest is fairly self explanatory!