Stavanger, as befits a port city, is fully cosmopolitan. Lots of all kinds of rovers, beggars and sellers of everything. We often met our compatriots who came to Norway for work or, like us, for tourists. The city itself is not big, but you can spend the whole day here without being bored. The oldest part of the museum, Gamle Stavanger, is beautiful, although it looks like an open-air museum. The transatlantic cruise ships mooring next to the old town make an amazing impression. The one we saw looked like a ten-story apartment block.