moskus said:
But since you've been to Stavaner, Paul, you should know that 12 deg C and rain is what you should expect in Stavanger, whatever season it is...
Thats not true

I once went to Stavanger for the bi-annual oil show and was staying in a small town just outside Stavanger, a pretty place in a nice hotel. The weather was really sunny and warm. One evening, I got back to the hotel at about 5.30pm, went to my room, opened the windows, enjoyed the view over the roof tops to the water.
I had arranged to see a collegue at 7:30pm in the bar downstairs so I just lay on the top of the bed with the windows open and drifted off to sleep, lying half naked on the bed (not a pretty sight

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Anyway, when I came round, the clock said 7:25 so I rushed to get ready to meet my collegue. But then I realised that it was 7:25am the next morning

I had slept through 14 hours. Never done that before, not since I was a teenager. So the night was so warm, even that didn't wake me with all the windows very wide open.
I have many good memories of Stavanger, I went there many times over the years. Getting to bed was always a fuzzy experience, apart from the time I spent there with a devout Norwegian Christian who wouldn't drink nor go in any bars. He spent a lot of his time on his own that week
