Walking around Bergen

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryggen it is amazing how much history there is here the link takes you to information on Bryygen which is and old section of Bergen. We spent an hour today talking the volunteer of the Bryygen tourist info centre, he works there for three days a week for free in the winter because it is typically closed right now. This section is a wooden town and has been destroyed by fire several times over a thousand years, each time there was a fire they pushed the rubble into the port and built on top of the destroyed buildings. The one thing I read and I hope I didn't get these numbers wrong but they believe the shoreline has moved out 120m and is possibly built up on 10m of destroyed buildings. The organic material does not decompose because of the salt water in the ground, there have been a couple cases that affected the ground water which increased the decomposing process and the buildings sank. The area is very protected now from any below grade construction, and any restoration of buildings has to done with the same tools and materials they were originally built with.  Kelsey

This is a huge task and involves engineering and very extensive construction to save the buildings. A few pictures below to show this area