Skagen Brygge Hotel Stavanger

... 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. <br><br>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!! <br><br><br>STAVANGER FTW!!

Today is my last day in Norway. We went to visit some old Norwegian houses from the Iron Age. It was quite interesting. They used to think the people back then were very short, but it turns out that they were actually taller than us! So all the ceilings in the houses they reconstructed in the 70s are way too low. They were considered quite unsophisticated by the Romans, and a lot of the technology they had would have been copied from ...

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.

... and beautiful; a vertical drop of about 2000 ft to the fjord below. But I feel that the Glacier Point in Yosemite tops it (this is the curse of traveling a lot: too much comparisons and hardly any new encounter is truly spectacular): the drop over there is over 3000 ft and it has the view of the Half Dome to boot. Yesterday, May 21, I took on an "easier" hike - around the small lake in front of the hostel, with a side trip walking down to the fjord. Well, it turned out ...

... of which he lost this year), told journalists the overall standard of the competitors was surprisingly high from countries which had never competed in European individual championships before, particularly Eastern Europe. The Estonian chef's salmon dish had the judges sit up and take notice - the lightly smoked salmon was ingeniously presented shrouded in its own smoke under a small glass dome, which, when lifted sent an delectable aroma of smoked salmon into the room ...

... of his enemies around 900 AD. Stavanger, Norway's 4th biggest town of about 120,000 residents, is surprisingly cosmopolitan for its size, being the home for people from 150 different countries. It is best known as the oil capital of the Norway, but in earlier times it was the centre of Norway's then booming herring and canning industry. Summer is a ...

... traveling through the Norway countryside, every house we passed...I noticed there was a small playground and a trampoline. Seeing the trampolines reminded me of all the pools in everyone's backyard in Florida. Sorry if my postings have been a bit choppy. I wanted to be sure to update on what is going on, but the cost to use the Internet is at least 5 USD an hour! So, I have to type quick.

... to the trip and Scandinavia has been terrific. ctothej _____________________________________ I have just read in a tourism guide that our hostel offers 'moose safaris'. If I had known earlier I would have booked an extra night! In Bergen we shared a dorm with a Romanian professor of Economics who was on a break from lecturing in the States. He was a thoroughly interesting man who even had the kindness to warn us, as dusk fell, that during the night he 'might snore a little ...

... det endelig rent (eller?). Naa skal vi bare innom diverse familie baade histen og pisten, saa skal det bli noen festlige timer paa flyet nedover. Aa fly er jo som kjent kjempegoy, for der er det kjempegod plass til beina, flyseter er jo nesten aa regne som senger, og det skjer aldri at det kommer noen illeluktende folk som deiser ned i setet ved siden av (nei, ikke deg Malene). Saa det skal bli artig. Men, vi gleder oss noe voldsomt!!! 30 grader venter!

... tell you it was Norway's oldest) but it was too early and only opened at 10am. We were there on Thursday and there was supposed to be a organ recital at the church at 11.15am. Sadly we were rushing for time and had no choice but to head back to the hotel to have lunch. On our way back to the hotel, we stopped at a vendor selling Russian souvenirs along the road. We bought a Russian Doll (with 4 dolls inside a bigger one) for 125 Nok. Chris simply loved it ...