Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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There are several hotels in Trondhjem, and they
are by no means exclusively devoted to tourists, but
are largely occupied by commercial travellers who,
with the increasing wealth of Norway, have become
rather numerous here. The Hôtel d’Angleterre
being the largest, and that where tourists most
do congregate, we proceeded thither and found
comfortable quarters. The ladies had a very
capacious, I might almost say a splendid, apartment
devoted to their own especial use. We dined at a
table-d’hôte, had good soup, excellent fish, joints,
entrées, pastry, and dessert; were altogether
treated in such hotel-like fashion, that, surrounded
not only by my pupils, but also amidst several
other English tourists who of course had read
‘Through Norway with a Knapsack,’ I felt
somewhat uneasy, lest all of them should denounce me
as a humbug, and my descriptions of Norwegian
hardship as pure romance. Besides all these, we
found that good warm baths are obtainable at the
Harmonium Club, and that in most other respects
we were in a city of considerable luxury,
notwithstanding its high latitude.
Of course we visited the cathedral, which I need
not again describe. We were unable to form a
just idea of its interior, as it was in a state of
chaos, undergoing very extensive alterations and
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