HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Happy New Year to YOU.

This is an image taken some months back.
A view from Vågen, the harbor area here in Stavanger.

We are soon starting a new year.

Celebrate and have fun tonight !

Frode. Alkha and a crocodile...

A CROCODILE and two men were also seen next to the red tree.

The men, FRODE and ALKHA are working for the same company, and maintaining the city, keeping it clean and pretty.
The crocodile is one of several "animals" from the theme park,
with african animals, at the playground near Stavanger Aftenblad, our biggest local newspaper.

The RED tree.

This is the most colorful tree in the park at the moment.
Today I took a closer look.

Rain-rain go away!

RAIN - RAIN GO AWAY !!!

(Well at least the newspapers are rapped in plastic!)

Søregaten.

There are quite a number of office and shops areas that are empty and ready for new people to take over..... So if you have plans for something new, and money as well as the spirit for something new for next year...... you could start out with looking around Søregaten where there are places on both sides of the little road....

I seriously think it is sad to see this happening in Stavanger.
Is it the same in many other cities?

Control tower decorated for x-mas.

Even the tower at the airport has been decorated for Christmas.
I think it had even more lightbulbs around the windows than this, but perhaps it was taken down or fell off when we had some storms.
Anyway, today is the big day for people who are traveling back after visiting friends and family. Some have taken tomorrow off from work, and some will not go back home until after the new year.

Quiet in town.

In Norway the presents were opened yesterday evening (and after that, Father Christmas went to England.... we were told as children).

Stavanger is very very quiet.......

I hope you are having a good Christmas holiday wherever you are.

The statue is one of my favorites in Stavanger. and is in the beginning of the narrow little road Nygaten.