A bonus.

What I call a bonus, is to live so close to the North Sea, the coastline and the beaches.
You can reach several of them if you head south and out of the city.
This is Orre, about 30-40 minutes by car from the city centre.
I love the open landscape, and I love these places for long walks. It is probably one of the things I would have missed the most, if I should have moved away from the area.

Who is he ?

I don't know who this is, nor who the artist is.
But I found it quite unusual and interesting.

Statue by Hugo Frank Wathne.

Stavanger would not have developed to the extent it did during the industrial period, if it wasn't for all the women who worked very long days in the industry.
In the beginning they did not have permanent jobs and they worked very hard, sometimes even bringing their children to work.
Later as laws and regulations were introduced, things became better.

This is a fine example of one of the many workers who made Stavanger famous, in this case, working in the canning industry.

The statue is made by Hugo Frank Wathne, and is placed at what we call,
 Østre Bydel (East part of the town).

HAPPY SUNDAY.

HAPPY SUNDAY.
Enjoy the day!

MATHALLEN.

Mathallen. The new food hall in Stavanger has been open for a few weeks and this week I had a look inside around lunch time. It looked very tidy, very quiet, also interesting, and had some nice locally produced products..... So I did some shopping.

I hope they will manage to run the place and develop the concept.

Where is the best food hall that YOU have been to??

Inside Noah's Ark

There are some creative people around, and when I visited Noah´s Ark I fully understood that this has taken time to make. More than 50 people worked for 16 months to build it. Here are some images that show some of the things you can see inside "The Floating Bible Museum". It is 70 meters long, 10 meter wide and 13 meter high. The Dutch owner,artist and producer, Aad Peters, has said in several interviews that it is important to learn and know about our own culture, and I can see that this might be visited by many families and school classes too.

For more info. take a look at http://www.noasark.dk

NOAH'S ARK.

"Noah's ark" has arrived in town.
Tomorrow I'll show you images from inside.
It has been in Kristiansand, and will be here for five more weeks, before leaving for Bergen.