The weather like the mood is sombre. This weekend was supposed to be the Gladmat Food Festival. This is the largest food festival in the Nordic countries with all sorts of wonderful food.

Including this full spit roasted cow. But in sympathy to the events in Oslo, the festival was cancelled. As one stall holder put it to me, “so we lose a little money, that is nothing compared to what happened”.

I’m not sure what all the 6,000 people on board the two cruise boats would now do, although later in the day I could hear any entertainer on one of the boats exhorting people on the ship’s sun deck that “it’s fun to be at the Y.M.C.A”. I don’t think I could do that. Instead I lit a candle in the church

Next week Stavanger hosts the Tall Ships race, hopefully things will be better then.

It is funny how, when you are spending most of the time outdoors, that rain doesn’t matter as much as when one spends most of the time indoors. Stavanger.

I like Stavanger, while North Sea Oil is its main source of income (so I’m told), it has many lovely spots.