Minotel Holiday Sandnes

... must say that Norway is a fantastic place to be. The lovly nature and the good looking girls. If there is one bad thing I must say about Norway it has to be the weather, but thats a part of it. 

But Norway and Stavanger has it all!! Surfing, skating, party life, great nature and hot women, travel destinaton number one: Stavanger Norway ladies and gentleman!! 


STAVANGER FTW!!

Another couple mad train rides from Bergen to Oslo and then over to Stavanger took us to small oil town, from where we would make our way to the beautiful lyseford. The fjord is quite deep, and we came to take the hike up to the Preikestolen, high above the fjord. The hike was great, and though we were soaked by rain upon arriving in Stavanger, it wasn't too bad during the 2 hour trek up.

... cos of the number of people going through; and apparently I don’t sound like an Aussie according to the guy at Gatwick airport!

Stayed at the Ascot Hyde Park hotel near Paddington station, and boy is it close – the hotel itself is getting a bit tired, but hey – I got a two room apartment with two double beds and shower that was cosy enough for the bargain basement price of only 40 pounds, breakfast included!

... there were newcomers to Stravanger, but it was fun nonetheless. Turns out, because of the bumper oil industry, Stravanger is filled with ex-pats. Americans, Colombians, Spanish, French, English, German, and many other random nationalities.

On my last full day, Kelley and I took a tourist boat up into the fjord. We spent most of the time on the top deck wearing all the warm clothes we could find and freezing anyway. The ride ...

... ido a Copenhague y pasar el día con mi amigo Jesper, que hace siglos que no veo. Pero no, al final de una puerta a otra, consigo volar a las 5 pm, para llegar a Kristiansand y no hacer absolutamente nada, porque ya se había pasado todo lo de ese día. Y encima tengo que agradecer que se diese cuenta y no aparecer en cualquier pueblucho de Suecia.... En fin, al día siguiente, charlas por la mañana, y crucerito por la costa sur de Noruega en un barco espectacular, un ...

The weather was amazing this morning and since Kevin had been in Norway for over a year without a trip to Prikestolen (Pulpit Rock) it was time... We took the ferry from Stavanger to Tau in the morning and ...

... with some friends from work and then walked into town. There were flags and dressed up people everywhere. From there, we went to a lunch at another friend's house. We had smor-brod, traditional open-face sandwiches with lots of delicious toppings...shrimp, beef, ham, pork, etc and we had a marzipan cream cake that was decorated with the Norwegian flag. Next ...

... built cabin in Revøy.  The sun even peaked out when I arrived.  Too many excellent meals and chocolates later, we settled down for a round or two of Texas Hold'em poker. Let's just say I didn't get rich this time around either. The cabin is now as good as finished, one of the latest additions being a sauna which we tried out with authentic sauna wool hats from Russia! Highly recommended ... if you want to look like a dork that is ...

... because when we were grocery shopping we realized that we don't know the difference between butter and margarine in Norwegian and trying to find shortening was another story. I did manage to find butter (smor) but I have never made a pie crust with only butter. The pie looked delicious and the filling was great but the crust was a little soggy!

... in snacks: cookies, cakes, waffles, chocolate, pizza (no lutefisk or sheeps head yet). Every visitor is fed to the stuffing point, and we are no exception. We have yet to make it to the local gym, but we had better go soon or else we will not fit into our seats. Last night, we ate at a local Asian restaurant and wandered to a nearby pub for a beer. The bartender passed out some complimentary gløgg - a spiced ...