Solsiden

Today in our continued quest to find familiar food we took off to Solsiden. Solsiden is kind of like a mall. There are a bunch of shops and restaurants. There is also a vinmonopolt or liquor store. Inside one of the malls there is a grocery store that we were told sold more imported items and a hardware store both of which we needed to visit. So we got on the bus and took off for downtown Trondheim. Solsiden is a very pretty area and there were lots of people shopping. The restaurants were very expensive so we just looked at the menus. We're talking $25 for a hamburger and fries but it was till fun to look. We ended up getting the tool we needed at the hardware store and to my amazement we found ... black beans! We also found tortilla chips and chorizo which we'll have to live with since we can't find ground sausage. They have ricotta cheese and Newman's own salad dressing. This will be a grocery to go to for certain items. We are finding out that it is best to shop at different stores for different reasons. Some stores are cheaper, some have a bigger variety and some have specialty items. It seems like most of our time has been spent tracking down the right food! Yet we are figuring it out and in our quest for groceries we are seeing a lot of the town. Solsiden is definetly a place I will go again. It'd be awesome to get an apartment near that area but I've read that they can be very expensive. Oh and we ended up missing the liquor store. It closed at 3:00 and we got there at 3:15, go figure. So right now Jeff is trekking over to the closest grocery store to pick us up some 4.5% alcohol beer, guess that's better than nothing! © Trondheim kommune