Is it cold by you too?

@Gingerbreadspice Still, what you have can feel similar to what we feel!

@MellyMel22 Yeah it’s been a cold January so far. Usually colder than average and close to freezing a lot of the days.

@Gingerbreadspice Extreme weather bothers me 😅

@Gingerbreadspice I feel colder in a UK winter at+10 C than I do at home in Norway at -10 C. It's the damp that gets me

@ninalanyon I love Norway I’ve been 3 times, it can be very hot and very cold. I’ve only been in the summer June, July and August. I found Stavanger to have very similar weather to UK. It rains a lot in some cities in Norway too but nowhere rains as much as Iceland 😂.

@Gingerbreadspice I live in the east about 40 km south of Oslo. It's much drier here than Stavanger. I've only visited the southern part of the west coast once; my wife and I visited Bergen for a long weekend one summer. I think we only saw the sun for a couple of hours in three days in July. We went up to the top of the hills surrounding the town but we couldn't see the town when we looked down. :-)

I'm not sure I'd say it ever gets very hot here. Last year the highest temperature where I live was 28.6 C on 2nd July. But the average temperature for June was 15.7 C and the minimum was only 5.5 C! The minimum last year was 6th January, -26.3, mean for the month -6.7 C.

@ninalanyon Yeah it was about 24C a few days I went. Most of the time was about 17-18C. The cities I went to were Oslo the first time. Second and third time were Olden, Bergen, Andalsnes, Trondheim, Alesund and Stavanger. My favourite port of call in the Fjords was Flam.

@Gingerbreadspice You've been to much more of the west coast than I have! Do you have family, work, or cultural connections with the west coast?

@ninalanyon No I went on a cruise ship there a few times. First time was on a Baltic cruise but went to just Oslo and the other two times was a 7 day and 12 night cruise to Norway from UK on its own. Also they do cruises in the winter to see northern lights. When I went in June it was the midnight sun, although it got dark a bit it never got dark like it does here in England in the summer. Norway is so beautiful, probably my favourite country.

@Gingerbreadspice Ah, a cruise explains the concentration on the west coast. The scenery is much more dramatic than over here on the east coast. I've never seen the Northern Lights, I keep promising myself I'll go and never get around to it.