Saturday morning, just after landing, on the local beach – our two city kids are happy.
There isn’t many short-haul flights from London where the destination is not obvious – Stavenger is one. The regular flight from London is mostly used for people on business to work on the North sea oil industry, so here we are in the south-west of Norway for 40 hours of family fun.
The main known attraction in the area is Lysefjord fjord located few hours from Stavanger. It is best known for Preikestolen pulpit rock – big rock overlooking the fjord. Unfortunately the hike would have been too much for Olivier, so we stayed on the beach and went for a local tour on the scenic road – taking ferries for the great amusement of Chiara and Olivier.
Before jumping back on the plane – the Oil museum was quite a hit as well !
Summary with a few images …
6 years ago – we used to do this – now we have to let the youngsters
Until this day – Chiara has been swimming in all the waters she encountered – but the 5 degres of the North Sea in March proved a step too high (good for me too as I didn’t have to join her). This picture was taken after 10mins of her playing in the water, she couldn’t feel her feet.
Family pose without the photographer on duty.
No matter the wind and the cold, ferry as so much fun we had to do every crossing outside (we were the only ones)
Olivier looking for stuff to throw in the water – anything.
While we were having a moment of culture – kids were playing in the fake oil rig.
This is our moment of culture – amazing small scale models of oil rigs and boats.
Chiara playing in the local playground – made of recycled inflatable buoys.