Almost immediately after my Ireland trip, I took a weekend trip to Stavanger, Norway. I have a friend from OU living there with her husband and family. They moved to Norway at the same time I moved to London and we had dinner together when they visited London last spring. Norway is supposed to be amazingly beautiful and as long as I had a place to stay and local tour guides, I wanted to make a trip. Norway did not disappoint!
These are a couple of photos taken on our drive to the hike on Saturday (more to come on that!). A tiny local church.
There were lots of houses with grass growing on the roof! Leslie didn't know anything about it, but she did say that many of these cabins were for weekends out of the cities for Norwegians.
On Sunday we took a short walk around the Stavanger city center - look at the cute painted buildings! Stavanger is sometimes a stop for the fjord cruise ships that travel around Norway in the summers. September was a bit past the cruise season, but apparently its very busy in the summer!
These trolls were everywhere - I guess they are part of the local mythology/legend/stories? In any case, I took home a troll Christmas ornament. This is one of Leslie's three boys. After this photo was taken, he proceeded to beat me about 10 times at Mario Kart - super competitive!
Earlier on Sunday Leslie and I also went for a run near their home. They live just a few blocks from the water's edge, so we ran along the fjord. So beautiful!
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