I took a rest day at my Aunt and Uncle's house in Stavanger. It was still dusk at 10:00 when we got in that night. You could still make out the Fjord in the distance from their living room and you can see the North Sea in the daylight. Weather here changes so quickly that the views seem to change hourly. Roger told me during June here in Southern Norway, the sun sets for only ~5 hours but the extended dusk and dawn mean there are only about 3 hours of true darkness. In the winter, it is the reverse. We woke to cows mooing from the dairy's pasture downhill from their house.
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| One view from the house |
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| Another view from the house |
The food was also fun. Roger cooked delicious dinners (salmon, sea trout, cod and reindeer) and shared his fabulous bar, including a taste of 25 year old Scotch. The produce was surprisingly good. I didn't expect much to grow in the short Norwegian growing season, but strawberries and other produce apparently thrives in the long daylight. It's been a while since I have lived abroad. So I also got to remember how to play the grocery store/refrigerator guessing game: "Is this Milk? It's labeled Melk and there's a picture of a cow on it - that looks right doesn't it?"
We took a boat tour of Lysefjord on day 2 and the captain really got us close to as much as possible. He pulled up next to seals sunning themselves on rocks and he got the ferry close enough to a waterfall that we could fill up cups with the fresh Norwegian mountain water. I was amazed how close the boat could get to the land, but the rock islands must have plunged into the water as dramatically as the cliffs rose out of it. The glacier-cut cliffs seemed to defy gravity in many places.
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