Last port day! We slept in, since we didn’t have anything specific until 12 and it seems that pretty much everyone else on the ship had the same plan as the breakfast buffet was the busiest we have seen.

We head out to the old town of Stavanger which happens to be right next to our ship. It was a lot of houses from the late 1700s and early 1800s that made up the town. Outside a lot of tourists and a few cats (which we assume weren’t tourists) there wasn’t much to see. We wandered around the rest of the downtown district waiting for our cruise of Lysefjord.

While the forecast was a 60% chance of showers, what we encountered was a very blustery partly cloudy. It was so windy we thought that maybe our ship wouldn’t set sail for the tour, but it did. That made the sea rather rough out to the fjord, but once we got into the fjord everything was much more calm and we had quite nice spots of sunshine, I think the most sunshine we had since leaving Southampton. It was still on the cool side of about 14º max.

We saw Pulpit Rock, which is an abnormal rock formation that is flat and juts 25 feet out over the cliff edge. We had originally tried to get a hike up to there, but with our time in port we couldn’t make it fit, so I guess seeing it from below was a close proximity. We also saw some more waterfalls and other formations that made the day interesting.

We hit the buffet early (since we didn’t have a lunch) and then decided we were call it an early evening. We went back to our cabin, watched the documentary called Art and Craft (which was really quite interesting) and then were in asleep just after 21:00.