Restaurant recommendations in Tromso
May 7th, 2010, 10:14 AM
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I know that this borders on the brink of blasphemy...but by the time we reached Tromso (driving a few weeks on our own with two friends) we kind of welcomed a very nice Asian Fusion place on the harbor a few doors down from the Radisson where were were staying..quite good and a lot less expensive than other dining we had sampled around the country. This included Oslo, NIN to Bergen, three total nights on the Hurtigruten (two from Bergen to Trondheim,then Trondhem to Bodo, where we rented car, ferried to the Lofotens and ferried and drove on to Tromso via Narvik).
Sorry, but I didn't write the name in my journal..you'll find it, if interested. It was a welcome change for us. We also "cheated" in Bodo, opting for a very good pizza and pasta in the Radisson's grille. Sometimes ya gotta do what you gotta do.
Here are some scanned, pre-digital Norway pics for you.
Tromso doesn't seem to make it to this forum very often.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stuartto...uHk6iIgbSEgAE#
Enjoy P.B.U.U. Norway..pristine, beautiful, unrushed and uncrowded.
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I know that this borders on the brink of blasphemy...but by the time we reached Tromso (driving a few weeks on our own with two friends) we kind of welcomed a very nice Asian Fusion place on the harbor a few doors down from the Radisson where were were staying..quite good and a lot less expensive than other dining we had sampled around the country. This included Oslo, NIN to Bergen, three total nights on the Hurtigruten (two from Bergen to Trondheim,then Trondhem to Bodo, where we rented car, ferried to the Lofotens and ferried and drove on to Tromso via Narvik).
Sorry, but I didn't write the name in my journal..you'll find it, if interested. It was a welcome change for us. We also "cheated" in Bodo, opting for a very good pizza and pasta in the Radisson's grille. Sometimes ya gotta do what you gotta do.
Here are some scanned, pre-digital Norway pics for you.
Tromso doesn't seem to make it to this forum very often.
http://picasaweb.google.com/stuartto...uHk6iIgbSEgAE#
Enjoy P.B.U.U. Norway..pristine, beautiful, unrushed and uncrowded.
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May 10th, 2010, 08:38 PM
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Valley K..sorry...it's not on the computer..old fashioned, handwritten journals I've kept for every overseas trip since 1946 in little lined-paged booklets. Legacy to the ten grandchildren, if they should ever decide to read them!
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May 11th, 2010, 10:02 AM
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Stu Tower, or anybody else... there is a Holocaust memorial in Tromso, and I cannot find where exactly it's located, do you know? Somewhere in a "central plaza" and "across from Amundsen memorial" - off a cruise ship, how easy or difficult to find? How far from the dock?
May 11th, 2010, 10:35 AM
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There is a small restaurant just off the main street fiskekompani. Walking towards the bridge it's on the right, level with the library. It had a higher end fish type menu but the prices were typically higher end Norwegian. (ie scary). We didn't go as it was closed on NYE. The menu looked very good.
http://www.fiskekompani.no/
The options in Tromso are pretty limited there's a great cafe on the plaza for lunch and the Olhallen was fine.
We had evening tours booked on each day and so the food was included. We ate at the Pizza place just off the harbour it was basic but again very expensive for the quality.
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How was the food at The Radisson? - we are planning a return next winter and considered it as an option. We will probably try The Bryggen, it was closed for a refurb last time so we missed out.
We loved Tromso felt like Tofino, Vancouver Island, a last port of civilisation before the wilderness.
I seem to remember passing the small memorial on the main square can't remember where though. The Amundsen statue is fairly charismatic and catches your attention.
http://www.fiskekompani.no/
The options in Tromso are pretty limited there's a great cafe on the plaza for lunch and the Olhallen was fine.
We had evening tours booked on each day and so the food was included. We ate at the Pizza place just off the harbour it was basic but again very expensive for the quality.
Stu
How was the food at The Radisson? - we are planning a return next winter and considered it as an option. We will probably try The Bryggen, it was closed for a refurb last time so we missed out.
We loved Tromso felt like Tofino, Vancouver Island, a last port of civilisation before the wilderness.
I seem to remember passing the small memorial on the main square can't remember where though. The Amundsen statue is fairly charismatic and catches your attention.
May 11th, 2010, 02:13 PM
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Dayenu...I seek out synagogues and memorials wherever I travel. My list of synagogues/sinagogas visited worldwide is perhaps one of the more comprehensive available. Nothing fancy about it...100+ entries, a few pages with the city/town/village by country. I'd be happy to send it you by email: [email protected]
Yes, Tromso has an impressive memorial for the few Jews (17?) taken away during the nazi occupation. We were driving so I can't tell you how long to get there (Central Square) from the docks..but they are close, in the vicinity of the Amundson memorial. No known synagogue, but Trondheim has one..a wooden building across from the large main catherdral.
By the way, the holocaust plaque dedicated to just two Jews apprehended by the relentless Nazis, is in the town of Orta San Giulia on Lake Orta in Italy. It commemorates the capture of a Doctor Mario Levi and his son Roberto in 1944. To this day, someone changes the flowers periodically. The plaque is on their former residence, a little house on one of the two main narrow streets in town.
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Mark Rosy: Although we stayed at the Radisson (very adequate and "reasonable" for Norway), we only ate breakfast there each day. Scavenged the town for other meals, including the Asian Fusion style I mention above.I recall we did eat at that fish resto.
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Yes, Tromso has an impressive memorial for the few Jews (17?) taken away during the nazi occupation. We were driving so I can't tell you how long to get there (Central Square) from the docks..but they are close, in the vicinity of the Amundson memorial. No known synagogue, but Trondheim has one..a wooden building across from the large main catherdral.
By the way, the holocaust plaque dedicated to just two Jews apprehended by the relentless Nazis, is in the town of Orta San Giulia on Lake Orta in Italy. It commemorates the capture of a Doctor Mario Levi and his son Roberto in 1944. To this day, someone changes the flowers periodically. The plaque is on their former residence, a little house on one of the two main narrow streets in town.
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Mark Rosy: Although we stayed at the Radisson (very adequate and "reasonable" for Norway), we only ate breakfast there each day. Scavenged the town for other meals, including the Asian Fusion style I mention above.I recall we did eat at that fish resto.
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May 11th, 2010, 04:01 PM
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We saw the Holocaust Memorial , the small park, Roald Amundsen statue not far from the Hurtigruten docks. Walk past the tourist information center Visit Tromso which is in an historic house, light grey with dark grey trim, and I believe it is across from it. We walked all the town and saw it when returning so it may be a little farther in town. The tourist center was extremely helpful giving us clear walking directions and bus information too.I would check with them.
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