This is our TV showing the bridge cam. This was how we could tell it was really raining outside.

I knew the rain was bad news because when it rains, this is how the bus window looks.

From the boat we could see Gamie Stavanger, which is Stavanger’s Old Town,. The cobble streets are lined with the continent’s highest concentration of wooden buildings that date to the 17th and 18th centuries. There are almost 250 houses in this area and they’re protected from developers by a conservancy.

I took this photo of an upscale Scavanger neighborhood through the front window of the bus. She has windshield wipers!

Speaking of our bus driver, it’s a woman and this cool Teddy Bear in his bus driver suit sits up front with her.

We stopped to see the Swords in the Rock, the site where Norway was founded in the 800’s.

This graceful bridge across the harbor overlooks a really nice community with boating facilities.

This long shop is a meat market. Wish we could have gone inside – bet it was interesting.

We drove out into the countryside and saw lots of black sheep and white sheep. The guide says the wool from the black sheep doesn’t need to be sheared, it just falls off or can be pulled off. And it’s very high quality wool.

Low clouds hung over the area and came and went very quickly. It was very green and gorgeous.

We stopped at a small place by the lake that used to be a working farm but now seems to be more of a camp and tourist spot. They fed us wonderful waffles which we slathered with homemade strawberry jam and sour cream. I recommend these highly.

The area outside of the tent where we were served waffles overlooked the lake and it was gorgeous.

It’s hard to capture the beauty of this area. Hopefully we’ll get another chance tomorrow.

We’ve heard that this area has ogres and sure enough we saw a severed ogre hand laying on the grass.

And we saw this door into a rock with 9 keyholes. Yes, 9. Clearly ogres are in the area.