Stavanger and our last week in Norway

Stavanger was our next stop. From our campground, we were able to walk into the old town in about 40 minutes. We visited the Norwegian Petroleum museum which gave us a really good insight into the source of the country's wealth.  I didn't know any of the history beforehand and the size of the current drilling platforms are really amazing. The Troll A platform is one of the greatest Norwegian achievements of all time, according to the museum. At 472m tall, weighing more than a million tonnes, the platform is one of the world's tallest human structures ever to be moved across the planet when it was put in place in 1995. It is designed to stand on the largest producing gas field for more than 70 years.  Here is the model, scale is 1:100 

We walked around the old town, dodging the rain showers as we went

On the road again we passed through a rugged landscape with houses built on and between huge boulders as we headed for Lyngdal. 

Nothing of great interest at Lyngdal but a nice campground at the head of a fjord. It was lovely when the sun came out, but unfortunately the wind was so strong it kept blowing out the flame on the gas stove outside. Time to cook dinner inside, again.

On to Kristiansand with a few hours to look around before we boarded the ferry to Denmark.

During our month travelling around Norway, we have seen some incredible scenery from the midnight sun in Trømso, massive mountains to huge waterfalls, frozen lakes and snow at 1,400m to two (and only two) hot days of 26C in Trondheim, a number of ferries (10 I think) and too many tunnels (including the longest in the world) and bridges to mention. It has certainly been an amazing experience. Now for another look at Denmark.