Saturday, April 14, 2012

Old Stavanger

Went walking thru "Old Stavanger" today.  Nice wooden homes, all white, there since 18th century.  Very tidy and almost like gingerbread man village.  Lots of little gardens and cobblestone streets - but those are in many places. I could've pasted a thousand pictures here but will just do a few..
Here is the old tower used from 1850-1922 overlooking the water and town.  They used to get up here to keep a look out for fires and "suspicious activity".
I just found it interesting to see a car stuck to the side of a building. Not sure why it's there.  Perhaps some nuanced artistic statement commenting on the perils of over-commercialisation in coordination with fossil fuel use in the post-modern world rendering society into a future of disarray represented by the car on the wall....Or it could just be a unique way to advertise the bank inside the building....

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