Monday, 20.01, Bodø - Trondheim

This day wasn't particularly eventful. I hopped on the train around noon, enjoyed a few nice views in daylight, and switched to the train to Oslo almost ten hours later in Trondheim. I used the one-hour layover there for a little outing in the pouring rain to the bridge over the Nidelva, from where you have the famous view of the colorful row of houses on the shore. Maybe I'm a philistine for thinking that, but I believe that's the most important thing to see in the city. If you Google Trondheim, you might actually get the impression that the city consists only of these few houses. No other motifs are shown. Incroyable.

The train to Oslo, which I barely managed to set up for sleeping, only arrived there the next morning. So that was pretty much it for the day. As that's a bit short, there will now be philosophical digressions:

As much as I like her, I have to admit that Felicitas is rather a poor conversation partner. The result: Apart from Copenhagen and small intermezzos with nice people I met, I hardly spoke at all. Or expressed positively: I remained mostly quiet. And it works. Without problems, without it even having occurred to me until recently. Yes, it's a tautology, but I still find it interesting: When a person has no one to talk to, they simply don't talk. And yet they think, they feel, they exist for themselves as they do otherwise. It's not for nothing that they say "Speech is silver, silence is golden.". If you're desperately looking for the moral of the story now, hold on. I haven't found it yet myself.

Now I would like to question why anyone would ever get a pug (as an example of overbred animal breeds). They suffer with every breath, and you can see that. It goes so far that the pug suffers from serious health problems. Is it ignorance? Indifference? What speaks in favor of it? That it's cute? If the owner loves their dog, you would think that they would want to spare them suffering. By buying a pug, you're only supporting their breeding, for which the term "brutal breeding" is probably appropriate. You are certainly not the target group for this appeal, but you are welcome to continue the thought in the comments. Reader interaction and all that.