Always book on an overnight train!

On Friday, we caught the train from Copenhagen up to Oslo. After a short wander through the evening streets of Oslo, we jumped on an overnight train to Trondheim to visit Matt's friend Henrik.
Now, we'd received some advice from a travel agent in Helsingor who suggested that, as we had Eurail passes, we didn't need to book places on any of our train travels. Turns out, despite the travel agent sounding so convincing, she was somewhat mistaken! The night train was fully booked so for a while, we appeared to be facing the prospect of spending the night standing in the train corridor! Luckily, a few seats appeared later in the evening and we were able to get some sleep! But we're certainly booking seats on all trains from now on.....

Trondheim turned out to be a lovely university town, complete with crazy uni antics and a fabulous cathedral. It was really nice to meet Matt's friend Henrik, his wife Henriette and their new little daughter Iris. And it was the furtherest north I'd ever been (63 degrees apparently!)
The cathedral was covered in figures of saints including one who was holding his head under one arm!
This was some crazy uni event where different faculties made rafts and battled each other across the river to try and get a treasure chest! There was much drunkeness and throwing of disgusting concoctions...
Trondheim from the revolving restaurant where we had lunch:
On Sunday we took a train back to Oslo where we visited a museum which has three intact real live viking ships! They were used as burial chambers for important people and because they were buried in clay, almost everything was preserved!

Oslo was very pretty. I especially enjoyed the water front areas and the fortress guarding the city.

At the end of the day we took a train up one of the mountains surrounding Oslo to a quaint little restaurant which the Lonely Planet said served the best apple cake in all of Oslo AND had a great view. The view was great and the apple cake was pretty nice too!