Friday 20 December: - Flew from Stavanger to Munich and then headed off to the nearest beer hall, Augustiner Braustuben. Unfortunately a Christmas party was in full swing so we'll have to revisit that place over New Years. Damn. Then we popped into Tollwood for a nightcap where there was a December festival and it's where Oktoberfest is. 21 - 27 December: - We trained from Munich to Innsbruck and then caught another train onto St Anton am Arlberg. Cam was ther...

We have now been in Norge for 2 months and have been having a great time so far. Highlights of the last few weeks: - First snowfall last weekend (only to be rained away in a day!). The city was very beautiful for the day that it lasted though :-) - Work Julebord. Literal translation is Christmas table but this was our Christmas party. We has a lovely dinner with the local traditional food - pinekjøtt, and also the Oslo Christmas food which was a delicious pork...

It's been a busy few weeks since our last entry. Had an expensive pub crawl, a lonningspeils (which is a Friday night drinks after getting paid), been to preikestolen (which involved a ferry, 20km bike and 2 hour hike in snow and then back again AND Van was sick!), moved into our new flat, had dinner with our neighbours and started work out at clients which has been better than finding work at the office. We start our Norwegian lessons tomorrow and we're meant to...

Tomorrow will mark 3 weeks living in Stavanger. It's starting to feel a bit more like this is home now that we've gotten a lot more used to the supermarkets, the price of things, and have begun getting stuck into routines such as going to the gym and on regular runs. We've managed to have activities on most evenings, from attending a networking event/ presentation on oil discoveries in the Barents Sea, to attending a clubs handball practice and also a 'introduc...

Been in Stavanger for just over a week now and loving it. First week was beautiful whether but now it's beginning to rain which apparently sticks around for most of the winter. We've both been given some clients but haven't really started work on them yet, just doing training at this stage. For the weekend we went to the Oil Museum which was interesting and then had a go at going out here. Cover charges of $20 was a bit of a shock and beers were $15 each and I th...