Trondheim to Rørvik

06/06/25 to 10/06/25

Was a six-hour round trip to Trondheim a worthwhile detour?!  Absolutely!  We could have spent days wandering around this super-cool city.  It helped that we were bathed in glorious sunshine on the Friday evening after our arrival and the city centre quayside was buzzing with locals and tourists alike, making the most of the long summer evening.  Even the visiting cruise ship looked comfortable in its surroundings and added appropriately to the summer vibe.

Trendy Trondheim

We smartened ourselves up and headed out for dinner, exploring the pretty and meticulously kept city centre, and settling on a local restaurant, 'Jovial'.  Mindful of our budget, we purposely were not going 'fancy' and both ordered burger and chips, and quite quickly agreed that they were one of the best burgers and chips we had ever eaten out.  It transpires that Trondheim's culinary reputation is well founded!

Following dinner we ambled along beautiful, tree-lined streets, marvelling at the stunning architecture, where the old, wooden, colourful wharves reaching out into the river and canals are mirrored in the exquisitely designed and executed new buildings of more recent times, constructed to support Trondheim's thriving economy. 

City square

The following morning's mission was to find the local laundry!  Unfortunately the machines at the marina were out of order, but it did give the opportunity to avail ourselves of more local food - this time coffee and cake at the local bakery, Onkel Svanhild, and again it did not disappoint!  In the afternoon we decided to finish off our to-do list (topping up the petrol can for the dinghy, depositing our recycling, visiting the superb angling shop for a couple more cod lures) via dinghy, nipping in and out of the various canal inlets and seeing the city from another perspective!  

Canal cruising

Yet a further perspective was provided when later on that evening, a group of young men took a wander up our pontoon, old-fashioned ghetto blaster on their shoulders, and the stag bedecked in a pink mankini!  I'm not sure they bargained on being right next to a yacht with a deck saloon for spectators!

City-life complete for the time being, it was time to get back out to adventuring again, and on the Sunday morning we set off back up the fjord (this time in shorts and t-shirts!).  Conditions were variable and we enjoyed a mix of motoring (in the fjord), sailing and then a little bit of motor-sailing, under the watchful eyes of as sea eagle, as we approached our snug anchorage for the evening at Tranøya (63° 52.2N, 009° 46.7E).

The next day continued in a similar vein.  Mixed topography of the land around us, mix of sailing and motoring, and variable wind, but whilst that might not make for any 'new' news as such, it does create a very comfortable feeling of starting to feel very at home in this beautiful country.  Another superb anchorage that night (Villa, 64°32.7'N, 010°42.6'E), with an evening foray ashore to the historic Villa Fyr lighthouse.  This was the first lighthouse to be built north of Trondheimsfjord and one of six coal-fired lighthouses built in Norway during the 1800s (and is the best preserved).  

Villa Fyr Lighthouse


A relatively short hop the next day (25 miles compared to the previous two 50mile trips) and we are now in Rørvik, another exceptionally well-served port facility in central Norway.  Bodø, our jumping off point for the Lofoten islands is getting ever closer!


Location: Rørvik, Norway

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