Wooden wonders of Stavanger
This fascinating ‘toy town’ of stacked wooden boxes defines the character of Norway’s oldest city. Given that Stavanger is the most expensive city in the world it’s perhaps a surprise to find a collection of wooden ‘sheds’ on the harbour-front – until you learn that it’s the continent’s highest concentration of protected wooden houses dating back to the 17th and 18th century. Saved at the eleventh hour from...