Friday - The trip to Stavanger

I took a 4 1/2 hour boat ride to Stavanger Friday morning. the boat was a lot like the one from Flåm. We made several stops along the way, including one in Balestrand. The Balestrand port was full of wooden sailboats.

Balestrand Port



Market (or Torget) area of Stavanger



The old cathedral in downtown Stavanger. It has been around for 900 years and has been in use the entire time. The inside has elaborate wood carvings and old stone objects (like a holy water basin) that are hundreds of years old and very ornate.

I tried of couple of new foods yesterday, Romegrøt and Risengrøt. Romegrøt was rome-grøss. It's a sour cream porridge that is very thick and nasty. I tried making it once before and thought I made it wong. Apparently not, the real stuff is just as bad. Risengrøt on the other had is Risen-gøød. It's a rice prrodge that is sweet and served with melted butter and sugar on top. It's a lot like rice pudding.

I also tried the bacon-in-a-tube (Bacon Ost) on some bread. It's pretty good. I think it's like a cream cheese that has bacon in it. I also like Snøfrisk, a creamy goat cheese that is like regular cream cheese.

Tonight I'll be cooking fiskekake.



I went to the movies last night to watch Inglorious Basterds. It was a pretty good film. They have assigned seats in the theater, which was something new. We were told that American movies are in English, with Norge subtitles. They were right, other than the fact that a third of the movie is in French and German - and the Norge subtitles replaced the normal English subtitles. I was able to pick out just enough between the three languages to make sense of what was being said.
A little blurry, but the theaters are pretty nice.


It was raining very hard first thing this morning, but appears to have cleared up, so I'm headed out to visit some museums today.