Mai 1st - Pickanick at Vaulen

May has a ridiculous number of public holidays. It all starts with May 1st - Labour day. A group of us rode our bikes loaded with picnic food and beer to Vaulen which is a beautiful park on the edge of the fjord between Stavanger and Sandnes. We played a game of Swedish bocce with a group of Aussies, Swedes, and Norwegians. The game is called Kubb (pronounced like "book" backwards !?) but essentially it involves throwing lumps of wood at the opponents teams wood! Lots of fun. Anyway here are some pics.


Here we are gorgeing ourselves on food!


Emma with the fjord in the background.


Emma cooking polser a la Noggie style - on a cheap polish throwaway BBQ grill thingy - burns the crap out of the sausages!


There was a nude bathing area just across the water from us - seemed to be a lot of lurkers around there!


Some of the locals went swimming in the fjord - NUTS!


Ryan didn't go in.


Everyone was out enjoying the weather. Even when the weather is "less good" they are out amongst it.


Here we are playing swedish bocce. From left: Ulf (Swede), Mari (Noggie), Simon (Aussie).


Kev - another aussie. You have to try and knock down the oppositions little towers.


An action shot of Mari. I think everyone managed to knock down some towers so it was a fun game that everyone can play.

Be so good!