Bridge over the River Rhein
I’m not sure why, but this is one of my favorite photographs of a bridge over the Rhein River, near the German city of Köln.
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Saint-Laurent Bridge over the Saône
For folks who know about the United States, Macon, France, is the namesake of Macon, Georgia. And this bridge, dating back to around the year 1000 AD, is the St. Laurent bridge which crosses the Saone River near Macon:
Bridge over the River Kwai
This is Alec Guiness, in front of the fictional Bridge over the River Kwai, in the 1957 film for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor: And this is the real Bridge over the River Kwai, as it looks today: To accomodate the flocks of tourists, the bridge is built with side platforms, […]
Brooklyn Bridge
There are quite a few perspectives from which the Brooklyn Bridge looks fantastic. Here I captured the bridge from below: And here I captured it from its deck:
Manhattan Bridge
This is the Manhattan Bridge, and with its clean lines it actually one of my all-time favorite bridges. Built around 1909, it is actually the world’s first bridge to use reinforced concrete.
Devil’s Bridge – Teufelsbrücke
This is the world famous Devil’s Bridge, high in the Gotthard Pass region of Switzerland: What I’ve never understood? The historical plaque talks about this gorge being uncrossable until recently, but this entry tells a slightly different story.
Cool cops and a mighty bridge in New York
Motorcycle police at Times Square: The Brooklyn Bridge:
The Tourist Bridge
You’re not likely to find any native Swiss or Lucernians on this bridge – only tourists.
Incredible, amazing, mind-blowing cable ferry
I’ve written about cable ferries before, such as the cable ferry on the Rhine. My hobby is very dangerous in and of itself, visiting to the most secluded regions of France – regions so remote and backwards that it is rumored, the local inhabitants themselves (after centuries of in-breeding) often have no names. The Gendarmarie […]
Those amazing Swiss bunkers
If you’ve ever been to the Berner Oberland in Switzerland then you know how it is. The Swiss built a tremendous number of fortifications deep within the country of Switzerland, far from any borders, so that if the Germans attacked from the north, they could retreat to the center and – in a sort of […]
Nagold Flowers – 2
Continuing the series, here are more flowers adorning a bridge over the Nagold River in Germany’s Schwarzwald:
Nagold Flowers – 1
Here are some summertime flowers on a bridge over the Nagold River in Germany’s Black Forest:
Bamberg Barge – and what in the heck is a Nitz?
The more you travel, the more things you don’t know – so the stupider you feel. At least in my case. Here is a barge approaching the bridge I am standing on, in central Bamberg, a UNESCO village in Franconia, Germany: And here is the same barge, passing directly under me, carrying what looks like […]
Bruderthal Brücke
These are the Venusfigurinen von Petersfells, historical works of art discovered in South Germany that date back to Ice Age times: And this is the Bruderthal Bridge in southern Germany: Technically speaking, it is not a bridge; it is a viaduct. The Bruderthal, or Brother Valley, is an interesting place located in the heart of […]
Aquaforming
I am not really sure if aquaforming is a word. I’m talking about the terraforming of streams, like this example in Algäu, Germany, shows: I think just about everyone has seen numerous examples of this in just about every country. But, if you stop to think about it, when / where / who decided to […]
Police Segway
I’ve taken snaps of policemen on motorcycles and policemen on horses. Here is a snap of a policeman driving across the Hoover Damn on a Segway: It really makes you stop and think why the police here would find it necessary to ride segways? The weather is spectacular, the damn is small enough to walk […]
Hannibal in Salamanca
This is Hannibal: And this is Salamanca, in western Spain: The cathedral somehow looks a bit tilted, so here is a second photo to assure you that it is not tilted. It also shows the Roman Bridge, which (unbelievably!) was built in the first century AD: I believe this is the first city that I’ve […]
Fishing in Istanbul
When backs are better than fronts – 2
Continuing Part 1 of the series, this is the Rheinbrücke Konstanz (or Rhein Bridge at Constance). Today nobody gives this bridge much thought – but hundreds of years ago, after you paid a sizable toll, this would have been your gateway from a dangerous, lawless outside to the safe and Disney-Land-like city of Konstanz. The armies […]
The Grande Île of Petite-France
This is a different view of the island in a recent blog post, but taken from a different angle. An interesting bit of trivia is that the various bridges (only one is shown here) are known as the pont couverts (which is French for “covered bridge”), even though the covering has been gone for quite […]
The Grande Île of Petite-France in Strasbourg
This is a picture of a Strasbourg canal, taken from the Grande Île in the Petite-France neighborhood. With all the bridges and blacktop you’d never realize this was an island – and I never realized it either until I looked it up on Wikipedia. This is also a “best kept secret” of Strasbourg, since it […]
Sunset on the Île Saint-Louis
It’s just incredible what cameras in mobile phones can do. I took this picture as the sun was setting on the bridge between Ile Saint-Louis (on the right) and Paris (left).
Cable ferry across the Rhein
You’ve heard of cable cars and cable bridges and cable TV – but have you heard of a cable ferry? This is something I have not encountered very often: a car-carrying ferry across a river, which itself is pulled by a cable that runs high above the river, rather than pushed by a motor. What you […]
Fishing in Turkey
I suppose it’s nothing special, but still it’s one of my all-time favorite photographs that I’ve taken. I love fishing, I never associated fishing or seafood with Istanbul – and I was thrilled and impressed to see so many passionate fisherman on the bridge.