You cross a bridge but you go through a tunnel. Now choose.
I did. Or didn't.
And you never cross a bridge twice, nor do you go through the very same tunnel two times in your life - because this is not what happens in real. In real life there are several tunnels to go through, and bridges to cross. Do the right thing, but don't think twice because what is there for you to conquer might not be there any more after rethinking.
You know what that is? Travelling through Europe with a cheap rail ticket, your lodging place being the train and your douche the rain, meeting strange people from strange cultures with stranger customs and getting the feel of what it is like to really be away from home.
You did that?
Good for you. I wish I had.
Can't do that unfortunately, at my age. Not only is the ticket much more expensive for people over twenty-six; that's a nuisance but could be overcome. The most serious problem would be that I can't stand any more dirt accumulating on my body, for a whole month.
I have already written about Waluliso bridge here on this blog a few times; it is again assembled (it's a pontoon bridge) for quite some weeks and shortens my way to Lobau considerably. Althogh the nudists in this area are already out in great masses I caught the bridge unawares, with no people on it at all. As this is a special occasion really I considered showing this favorite bridge of mine once more.
Waluliso bridge has been disassembled.
Due to the heavy rain in the last days and to prevent flooding in Vienna the weir to the New Danube was opened and the whole leisure zone, including the nudist area around Waluliso Bridge, was flooded:
The stink of mud lies in the air; and as I write this lines the smell rises up from memory again and seems to fill my flat. The boats making up the pontoon bridge now are free to rise and fall with the flood.
This is no special occurence at all, of course, and would happen every year at some time - but usually not already at the end of august, beginning of september. The bridge most likely will stay closed from now on till spring next year.
For me this means that I'll have to take a detour down to the lower weir of New Danube in order to get to Lobau national park. That's a nuisance, but no big deal - means only a few kilometres more on flat terrain, or a few miles alternatively; with that I can cope.
On july 7th I told you about Waluliso and the pontoon bridge named after him (German Waluliso-Brücke). Lately here in Vienna we had a few rather cold days so that finally I had the opportunity to take some pictures of this bridge without any nudists on it:
As for taking pictures of nudists I'd say that it's rather likely that quite a few of them wouldn't have any objections being photographed by foreign people. But it is quite save to say that hardly anyone on the nudist (FKK) beach on the New Danube would appreciate being photographed without being asked beforehand.
So, if you ever would like to try this out, be sure to ask for permission. And if you plan to publish the pictures of the net, then you better get the permission taken down in print, signed by all persons depicted. You might just get in serious troubles otherwise.
There's a bridge in Vienna hardly ever used for anything. It's closed for cars and even bikes and pedestrians. The bridge is leading to a power station and I guess that at least sometimes some vehicles will use it, otherwise why bother building it in the first place?
There might be and unusual answer to that one: probably some architect thought there was too much unused space which should be filled with a beautiful bridge.
Of course it seems rather unlikely that this would be so. But let's just enjoy imagining this being the case - for the bridge to Freudenau power station reaching over the locks of Freudenau dam:
