Our cultural friends in the North; Philip Key takes a stroll around old Stavanger, to see what our title rival has to offer.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: April 28, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Philip Key

IT WAS the European Capital of Culture as you might never have imagined it, with cobbled streets, wooden houses, a museum celebrating the sardine canning business and a booming oil industry.

What many in Liverpool may have not realised is that there are actually two European Capitals of Culture in 2008, Liverpool being one and Stavanger, in Norway, the other. This was Stavanger.

It is a very different world, as I discovered when I...

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