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Pirbadet Water Park
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On the Pirterminalen quay,
Pirbadet (adult/child Nkr145/125)
is Norway's largest indoor water park with a wealth of liquid pleasures, including a wave
pool, sauna and 100m water slide.
Tours
The tourist office arranges a couple of worthwhile daily tours, each leaving from Torget, in
front of its premises.
Bus tours (adult/child Nkr235/free;
tours late May-mid-Sep)
Two-hourmultilingual
city bus tours, departing at noon.
Walking tours (Nkr150; tours early Jul-late Aug)
Two-hour guided tours in English
and Norwegian, departing at 2pm.
TROND-WHAT?
Listen to Trondheimers talk about their city, and you may wonder whether they're all
referring to the same place.
Since the late Middle Ages, the city has been called Trondhjem, pronounced
'Trond-yem' and meaning, roughly, 'home of the good life'. But in the early 20th
century the fledgling national government was bent on making Norwegian city
names more historically Norwegian; just as Christiania reverted to its ancient name
of Oslo, on 1 January 1930 Trondhjem was changed back to Nidaros.
Some 20,000 locals took to the streets in protest and by 6 March the government
relented - sort of. The compromise was 'Trondheim', the etymologically Danish
'hj'
having been duly exorcised.
Nowadays the official pronunciation is 'Trond-haym', but many locals still say
'Trond-yem'. Thanks to the vagaries of the local dialect, still others call it 'Trond-
yahm'. Typical of this tolerant city, any of these pronunciations is acceptable, as is
the 'Trond-hime' that most English speakers hazard.
