On a recent visit to London, my son wanted to try the new Elizabeth Line Crossrail line. We jumped on at Paddington and hopped off at Canary Wharf, wandered around,…
I was toying with titling today's photo 'Yokel' but decided on 'Loaded' instead. Both are applicable in this case.
I found the adaptation to the canal bridge in today's photo to be a wonderfully simple solution to aiding people with bicycles crossing over the canals of Suzhou on the many bridges in the city.
'Popeye' is the name of the boat in the lower right corner of this image of a Paris Metro train passing over the Bir Hakeim bridge over the Seine.
I never got to see the bridging crews installing this lake bridging so I've no clue how they did it. I know in places the water was over six feet…
After the surveyor cut his line, a 'bridging crew' would follow along behind and cut smaller trees to form a walkway, or bridge. Typically three poles wide and nailed together, it made walking the lines considerably easier for the rest of us and in most cases kept our feet dry also. It also meant that relatively few people were actually tromping across the jungle floor.