Getting here

But before you do, remember that you've got to be able to pronounce it.

Flights

• Probably the easiest and cheapest direct routes to Stavanger from London, Manchester, Newcastle or Scotland are:

  Norwegian

  (Direct flights from Manchester and Gatwick to Stavanger. Prices vary: can be down to about �50 each way.)

  British Airways

  (flies daily direct from Heathrow to Stavanger for anything from �48 each way)

  British Midland and SAS

  (both fly daily from Heathrow to Stavanger)

  Wider�e

  (flies daily Newcastle or Aberdeen to Stavanger. Huge price variations: if one date seems very expensive, try a different one. You should be looking at about �70-�80 each way.)

• Other routes are:

  SAS

  (flies from several places to Stavanger, often via Copenhagen)

  KLM

  (flies from Liverpool, Manchester or elsewhere to Stavanger via Amsterdam)

  Eastern Airways

  (flies Newcastle, Glasgow or Aberdeen to Stavanger; also Liverpool to Stavanger via Aberdeen. Nice airline but usually more expensive than Wider�e)

  Ryan Air

  (flies Stansted to Haugesund + airport bus to Stavanger (bus takes three hours or so).

The Momondo site is useful as it includes all the options above and has a "show price calendar" feature which shows the lowest prices available all month for the route you select.

If you get a flight to Oslo Airport (make sure it's Gardermoen - airport code OSL) with any major airline, you can pick up cheap internal flights from Oslo Gardermoen (airport code OSL!) to Stavanger with Norwegian, Wider�e or (sometimes) SAS.

As a last resort, Ryan Air flies Liverpool to "Oslo" Torp airport in Sandefjord (which incidentally is literally hours away from Oslo), but this entails a long and complicated bus-and-train journey.

If you're in Oslo, Kristiansand, or somewhere else near a railway line, you can take a train to Egersund and we can pick you up from there.

Car ferries

There are contradictory messages about whether the Newcastle-Stavanger ferry is due to start up again, run by an outfit called Norwegian Seaways (even though they're British, not Norwegian).

From Hirtshals in northern Denmark there's a regular fast car ferry service to Kristiansand, which is a train journey (see above) or a 3 ½-hour drive to here - route map here).

The last bit

By car from Stavanger airport (though we'll happily collect you), follow these directions (PDF document - be patient!).

By car from Sandnes, follow these directions (PDF document - be patient!).

Pronounciation

Vikes�
Veek - eh - so (so as in sore) [with the accent on the first syllable "Vee"]

Hovland
Hoov - land (oo pronounced like the sound you make when you try to move when you've got a stiff back) [with the accent on the first syllable "hoo"]