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Lima November-Oscar Uniform Foxtrot Helo 4 pob (people on board) inbound to SUS (Stavanger University Hospital St Sv Svithun) ETA 1859 requesting immediate airway clearance for medical emergency.

As my hotel is part of the complex in minutes I was at the LMZ (landing Zone) to watch the Airbus Helicopters Deutschland EC 135 T3 arrive.

It is one of 40 aircraft owned by the Norway Ambulance Service (Norsk Luftambulanse) the majority of which, 34, are helicopters and the remaining 6 are all fixed wing Hawker Beechcraft B200 aircraft.

This particular craft is one of a batch ordered to update the fleet and was only delivered in February 2018 and carries the latest in radio equipment (no less then 14 different radio types) and with twin jet engines is capable of substained operations in adverse weather especially winter operations in the mountains and fjords around Stavanger.

The public operations site tells us the mission I saw was to retrieve a 64 yr old male MVA victim with head injuries and muliple left leg fractures.

This aircraft averages 4 missions per day from its base in the Stavanger Universitetssjukehus grounds with a 24/7 6 minute response time (ie to have the craft ready for take off).

With the patient safely transferred the last 200m by road ambulance I will get back to today's normalised activities. 20.53 and the rescue Chopper is off on another mission. 2057 and its already airborne!

With adverse, but didn't arrive, weather and a very senic route to Bremer it was decided to delay departure for a day and after a later then normal start to hit the many museums in Stavanger.

The now familiar green Kolumbus No 4 bus leaves from the road fronting the St Svithum Hotell (local spellings are often used in this blog) and so it was my intention to purchase at the Billett (ticket machine) a 18KON about $3 1 sector fare. The machine had a blank screen so when the bus arrived I offered my credit card sorry cash only (which is unusal due to security issues) No cash I replied the driver looked and said "Take a seat"

Once in Stavanger a visit to Stavanger Cathedral was planned as it is Norway's best preserved Mediaeval Cathedral. It is undergoing a major restoration process until 2025. What is it like inside well to be honest I didn't go inside despite the guard on the door having a portable credit card machine. You see my believe is God's house should be open to all, yes ask for donation, but to demand payment is not on just to visit. How was the guard to know that I was a not Christian in need of communicating with God via a church?

Stavanger has a long association since it was first settled with the sea. This is how they came to the area , how trading took place and later became an important aspect of why it was occupied by the Germans during WW2.

This history is preserved in a dedicated Maritime Museum at the waterfront itself housed in historic building associated with the life of the port. The museum has actual artifacts such as a mine located in 1946 nearby to office reconstructions, trading stores, history lines on shipping lost including the 23 vessels sunk in WW2 resulting in 195 Stavanger sailors losing their lives.

Of unique importance on display is a tide machine that predicted with great accuracy the port tides for many years.

Valbery Tower constructed in 1853 to replace earlier ones destryoe maninly by fires serves to remind the town folk of "the Great Stavanger Fire" where 2500 people became homless in one night of fires in the densely settled wooden building. No deaths were recorded however.

This tower and those before it were designed to allow the local fireman,come Policeman to literally look out over the city seeking out smoke or fires and if so fire one or all three of the cannons in the tower grounds. Well it wasn't a fire but we did hear a shotgun blast today in town as they attempt to scare away seagulls and pidgeons from the city Central lake.

The last visitation was the Petroleum Museum one of the newest. It tells the story of Norway's involvement in the Petro Chemical world.

It also is designed as to resemble parts of an oil drilling platform. This is very realistic as it is out over the water with only steel decking and handrails. Situated along the rails are various lifeboats , submersible ROV (remotely operated vessels) and parts of drills and casings. There is also an evacuation slide that visitors are free to use along with many hands on displays ranging from operating a drilling rig to crawling into ROV's. One I liked was conecting and unconnecting cables from inside a diving suit in total darkness and the cables were actually in cold water. infact i was wishing I had Chris Waller with me as at numerous times you were challenged to use lashing,knots,pulleys etc to do tasks such as sending supplies up to derrick crewmenbers.

I did however feel at times I was visiting a United Nations assembly as they pushed with often false (well we now say Fake) news about global warming (have they not heard that even the UN Climate Council has admitted a .4o drop in temperatures) and climate change again how can they living in a country like Norway realise we have seasons! I did leave feedback but in reality I dont expect them to get back to me.

Still it was interesting to see models of oil structures like Troll A which at 472m high is the largest every structure to be moved on the earth.

From the museum you can see the latest platform Martin Unge under construction or really fitting out as it was constructed in South East Asia and towed to Stavanger.

All in the Industry in Norway is far from happy as EU agreements have stripped the people of Norway of the right to run their own petroleum industry in the manner they and their government had previously decided upon. Could now Brexit is well underway be the next country to "see the light"and commence Norskexit?