World's largest Gingerbread Village

World's largest Gingerbread Village

It is the holiday season. It's the day after Thanksgiving, the last days of November, and pre-Christmas has begun. Folks in lots of places are rolling out their Christmas stuff.

An interesting item appeared on the net this morning --

ITN News reported that in Norway, in the city of Bergen, school children have built the world's largest gingerbread village. It's been dubbed the "world's sweetest village."

The village has a model train that runs its way through it. It has " hundreds of houses and other structures, " and "features an oil rig -- a common sight off the coast of Norway."

The gingerbread village is put on display annually. This is the twentieth year.

Reports ITN News, the gingerbread village project organizer Steinar Kristoffersen, said this year's village was bigger and nicer than last year's.

And what says Christmas better than a gingerbread house? A ginger bread village? A ginger bread village built by school children? See the video.