The Ambitious Odometer: {EUROPE} Day Six

Thursday, June 5, 2025

{EUROPE} Day Six - Stavanger, NORWAY

This morning, we arrived in Stavanger at around 8:00am. From the ship, we could see the beautiful white wooden houses that make up the Gamle Stavanger neighborhood...

We grabbed breakfast (with a view) and were off the ship by about 9:30am. Though we got a slower start than we'd originally anticipated, we ended up with plenty of time to do what we wanted to do...

Stavanger is considered the "Oil Capital of Norway" and serves as the gateway to Lysefjord (translated to Light Fjord due to the lightly colored granite rocks).

Grandma had been to Norway, along with my dad, many moons ago, but not this particular part. It was a new country for my family of five!

We started our day touring the Gamle Stavanger area where there was no shortage of beautiful photo opportunities...

absolutely...

NO shortage...

at all...

We even found a little hilltop park and played a bit!

The rain mostly held off as we made our way over to the shopping area...

We really enjoyed this walkable town...

After a little shopping, we made our way over to the Norwegian Petroleum Museum...

{that's our L!}

We learned a bit about drilling for oil in Norway and the devastating rig accident that happened in 1980...

It was highly interactive, which was really nice...

By the time we left the museum, it had started raining pretty steadily, but we took a few pictures out in the GeoPark outside the museum...

It is supposed to be a playground built with components from the oil industry, thought it looks to have suffered at the hands of local graffiti artists...