Thursday, 4 August 2011

Land of the midnight sun (2)

A few more snapshot images of Stavanger and the surrounding countryside. All of these places can be visited for the day by car or car/ferry.


***********************************
Stavanger Old Town

4 comments:

  1. Hello Rosemary:
    Absolutely stunning!

    How we should have loved to stroll around Stavanger Old Town with you. It looks to be a simply charming, every house a picture which one could see on a chocolate box lid.

    But standing on the cliff edge and staring into the abyss.......oh, dear no!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Dear Jane and Lance - The cliff edge is called Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock) and looks out over the Lysefjord, but it is possible to view upwards from a boat.
    Hubby climbed to the top, a very steep and long 6 hours up and down with lots of boulders to encounter - I think he did well. I only managed half the climb.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Gorgeous views - the Lysefjord has to be one of the most awesome (in the literal sense of the word) places in the world. Stavanger reminds me a little of some of the coastal towns of Maine.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Mark - Lysefjord is certainly very impressive at 40 kilometres long and flanked by steep mountains, some rising over 1000 metres.

    ReplyDelete

❖PLEASE NOTE❖ Comments made by those who hide their identity will be deleted


“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you - you have to go to them sometimes”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh