The view from my hotel room in Stavanger looks out directly on a small "visitors" harbor, the Skagen. The city has history (first cathedral in Norway from 1125), active night life, and a busy harbor filled with ferries and ships supplying the North Sea oil wells which have brought such great wealth to this country. Norway is the third largest oil exporter in the world. It also has the highest cost for a gallon of gas, currently $7.75 per gallon. They want to keep people using public transport.
But I was not so interested in the economics as the harbor life. Yesterday was sunny and warm. The wharf restaurants and bars were full. Drinking and eating continued long into the evening. And the evening lasts all night long as midnight comes and goes with the sky still bright.
And then there were activities like trying to roll yourself around in the water in an airfilled plastic bubble.
Or get married.
