Active customs dock

This area is a good example of successful urban development. Just a few years ago, the area was filled with parked and polluting cars. Now the entire area has been turned into Bergen's largest playground and activity area spanning 5 acres (dekar, bedre oversettelse?), filled with happy and healthy children with rosy cheeks. In the quite old days, this was the customs quay, where everyone arriving in Bergen by boat could voluntarily declare international goods for customs. They worked around the clock, as there were many times the customs officers could hear oar strokes out in the fjord at nighttime. This would trigger the alarm, and vigorous customs officers would row out to intercept potential smugglers! Unfortunately, they were not easily deterred by a few officers, no matter how vigorous they may have been. They peppered the officers with stones or struck them with boat hooks and rusty iron rods. Sometimes they had to get help from Bergenhus Fortress that you can see on the other side of the fjord, and they fired live ammunition, but apparently, that didn't help much either.