Norway October 2014: Thoughts

We were welcomed by a little snow, already announced by the pilot in the plane (Oleg's face was something worth a picture, but I was too slow to capture it!), but we actually got lucky with the weather: it never went below 0 degree during the night spent in the tent, and also the nights in the train and in the Stavanger' street were reasonably bearable. 

Photos: the super cosy norvegian railways: people working, people sleeping...

Stavanger: a nice sea city, young people around and a cool city center just embraced by the sea. The atmosphere is really that one of a sea town: I would have not been surprise finding a bunch of sailors drinking rhum at the pub, winking at some girls in their dirty pirates-like clothes. On the other hand, the old city - just out of the peninsula area but still on the sea, is fancier, with the typical colored houses and an atmosphere more like north European middle-age village.  

Two things are amazing in Norway. 
The first one regards the landscapes: they are simply breathtaking. It's a masterly mix of nature, poetry and Romanticism: you cannot feel but a bit lost in such a vastness. If God was an artist, he surely would be a painter. 
The second thing is about girls. Norvegian girls. They are simply the beings closest to perfection I ever saw. I think I felt in love at least every 5 meters in Stavanger. Dressed with a smile allusive and shy at the same time, they wear skirts even when I was regretting I couldn't fit in my third pair of pants. Blondes, mostly, but not only, however always beautiful. If God was an artist he surely must be a sculptor.