Photographic Self-Promotion #2, Bergen2

This is another photo of bergen. These are the buildings facing along the front of the harbour. They're built of wood and are about 150 years old.
As well as being build from wood, they're effectively built ON wood as well. Over single one of these buildings is built on a giant sort of raft of logs, all of which have been submerged in the harbour of Bergen for about 150 years. The reason that the buildings aren't just falling into the sea is that the harbour water is sea water and as such is salt water. Apparently, the salt preserves the logs rather than rotting them. Clever.
One of the buildings (which is currently undergoing restoration work) is, rather unfortunately, in rather a bad state; it spent about 20 years as a fishmongers. Fishmongers use a lot of freshwater ice (and just a lot of fresh water), this was allowed to flow freely through the floor (hey, it's water falling into the sea, what could possibly go wrong?). Freshwater does rot wood and so large parts of the fountations of that particularly building are literally rotting away, which is obviously not good for that building and probably not good for the surrounding buildings either. But, they seem to know what's going on and are working on it, so the old building ought to stay standing.
Yeah, ok, not all that interesting a story really, but I needed some text to go with the picture.