Tuesday 16 August 2011

Weekend in Stavanger

Just got back from Stavanger 2 days ago :-). We were invited by one of our friends (Terry) to spend the weekend with him and his girlfriend.  There are many flights available to get there from Oslo everyday but we decided to drive instead. Yes, it was a long journey but we love road trips, so it doesnt matter.

We left home on friday 11am. We decided to take a route via Kristiansand which took us around 7 hours. Actually, there was another shorter route (an hour less), but we decided to take that route on the way back.  we thought it would be nice to see different routes as this was our first trip to Stavanger.

The view was beautiful with valleys, fjords and mountains. Norwegian sceneries always amazed me!. I couldnt stop clicking the camera :-).


marshmallow?!?! hehe

After almost 7 hours drive, we finally arrived in Stavanger. We first visited my Indonesian friend (Gita) who also lives there and went to Terry's afterwards. Its nice to meet someone from your home country espesially when she cooked Indonesian food. She made a very good sayur lodeh, an Indonesian vegetable stew with coconout milk... oh how i miss that food :-).

The next day, we went to centrum just to look around and it turned out they had a blomsterfestival or flower festival. Stavanger blomsterfestival was from 12-14 August 2011. Of course being a flower festival there were bound to be flowers everywhere.


While we were in town, we took time to find an asian shop nearby. We went to a place called Norvina, its in Nytorget 6, 4013 Stavanger. I wish we had this shop in Kongsberg. We do have 2 asian shops here, but the variety of the stock is not as good compared to Norvina. At least thats what i think :D.