14 March 2024

Grunwaldzki Bridge across the river Vistula in Krakow (Poland)

Tell me who I'll marry, tell me who he'll be
While the Vistula is flowing
By the green oak tree
While the Vistula is flowing
By the green oak tree

Here's a builder come to woo you
No one can build a house like he can
Fondly he tells you that he loves you
As he loves his houses

In a song by Judy Collins

Sant Martí Bridge over the Merlés river in Santa María de Merlés, Barcelona (Spain)

A Frontanyà cerca la passa
del riu Merlès capçal airós,
del Berguedà a l'escapada,
del Matamala a l'hort frondós.
...
In Frontanyà look for the raisin
of the river Merlès airy head,
from Berguedà to the escape,
from Matamala to the leafy garden.

Excerpt from a poem 
by Joan Benet i Petit

27 February 2024

Bridge over a canal in the Thahn Toan village near Hué (Vietnam)


“I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam – that a woman’s voice can drug you; that everything is so intense. The colors, the taste, even the rain.”

Graham Greene

Grunwald Bridge over the Oder River in Wroclaw (Poland)



‘I am thankful for heavens that in all my instincts I stood Polish.’ 

 Friedrich Nietzsche

25 February 2024

Bridge in a Blue Cats drawing by Rina Zenyuk

 

"It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."

Deng Xiaoping

Bridge over the river Todos Os Antos in Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais (Brazil)


"Here I will make my Philadelphia!"


Theophilo B. Ottoni,
beofore the founding of this city

16 February 2024

Sartakovsky Railway Bridge over the Oká River near Nijni Nojvorov (Russia)

A wind was howling and knew not about whom,
inspiring trembling in our heart.
a peasant woman walked with milk,
walked along the railroad track.
But at seven sharp, in due form,
tearing in full career from the Oka,
having flashed behind the signal-posts,
an express train takes off’.

In a poem by Mayakovski

Bridge over the Vistula River in Ustron, Silesia (Poland)


Vistula flows and flows,
Through the Polish countryside,
And for as long as it flows,
Poland will not perish.

The Vistula River
song from Poland

20 January 2024

Titan-RT Bridge over the Rappbode River near Oberharz am Brocken, Saxony Anhalt (Germany)


“The socialist production relations of our workers’ and farmers’ state/The great achievements of the workers, technicians and engineers involved in the construction were the basis for the creation of this work/Recognition and thanks to the builders”

Plaque in the Rappbode dam,
near this Bridge

Tower Bridge over the Thames River in London (United Kingdom)

London, dodging the rain with broken umbrellas
London, readind the Times on Saturday picnics
London, counting stars 'till the stars
All were gone


London, so many plans and nothing but time in
London, nothing to fear 'cause nothing could last in London, we grew close we grew scared
I moved on

Exceprt from London,
song by Manilow

Vinh Loi Bridge over a canal in old Hué (Vietnam)


The authenticity of the Complex of Hue Monuments may be understood through the unique layout of the design of the site, which became the imperial capital of the Vietnam Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The basic architectural and landscape features of the site have been maintained intact since their original construction in the early 19th century CE.

Complex of Hué Monuments as
UNESCO World Heritage Site


15 January 2024

Bridge depicted in an Easter card


Did you ever see a rabbit, a rabbit, a rabbit?
Did you ever see a rabbit, a rabbit on Easter morn?
He hops around so quietly
And hides all the eggs.
Did you ever see a rabbit, on Easter morn?

Children Easter song

Kazansky Bridge over the Griboyedov canal in Saint Petersburg (Russia)


"Rarely does one find a place with so many gloomy, intense, and strange influences on the human soul as in St. Petersburg."

In a novel by Dostoyevski

29 December 2023

Raya Bridge over the Muande brook in Saint Christophe en Oisans, Isére (France)



"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song."

Carl Perkins


Kho Bridge over one of the canals in old Huê (Vietnam)

 In the hundred-year span of a human life,
talent and fate are always apt to strife.
Through experience of a harrowing change,
What we witnessed filled our hearts with tearing pain.
‘Tis not a wonder that Heaven gives then takes,
And with the fair sex He used to be jealous.

Beginning of The Tale of Kieu
poem from old Hue

06 December 2023

Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge over the Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas (United States)

...Say good bye with dance parties and say good bye with shows
'Cause that somber-ass shit's not the way I wanna go
Put your hands in the air
Feel your dead friend's presence
Wrap and unwrap pack no resentments
With our hoods on our heads we are up on the bridge
And we're summoning the bats so we can live
With our hoods on our heads we are up on the bridge
And we're summoning the bats so we can live

Ending of the song Bats by The Uncluded
inspired in this bridge bats colony

Ponte Pênsil (Suspension Bridge) in São Vicente, São Paulo (Brazil)

“Esta ponte, elegantemente lançada, e que representa um melhoramento de incontestável valor, causa desde o primeiro golpe de vista uma impressão magnífica com o seu todo monumental”
“This bridge, elegantly designed, and which represents an improvement of undeniable value, makes a magnificent impression with its monumental appearance from the first glance”

Journal O Estado de S. Paulo,
in 22th, may 1914

Bridge in the West Hill island of the Taihu Lake, near Suzhou, Jiangsu province (China)


 Bloom ahead of hundreds of flowers,
Appear in the cold of snow and ice.
The frost and the moon are sure to know you,
Being the first to see the face of the spring breeze.

By chinese poet Xin Qiji

02 December 2023

Brooklyn Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York (United States)


“In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.”

Jan Struther

Bamboo Bridge over the University Pond in the Xitou Nature Education Area (Taiwan)


It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.


Robert Louis Stevenson

Bridge in a painting by Jeff Rowland


“I’m never happier than when I’ve got a paintbrush in my hand. Over the years, I have started to choose more intense colours to create a focal point – a refuge if you will – from the rain.”

Jeff Rowland

Bridge over the Nasva River in Nasva, Saarema island (Estonia)

The giant Tõll was the king of Saaremaa but he lived as a common farmer. He often visited his brother Leiger on the neighboring Hiiumaa  island. He was so tall that he could almost walk there (the Soela strait has only 2 mts deep). His walking stick was a spruce tree trunk. Tõll was always kind and ready to help, but very hot-tempered. He loved to eat cabbage, drink beer and go to the sauna. When an enemy decapitated him, he put his head on his sword and walked to his grave. When Tõll died, he promised to rise from grave and help people in case of war. But naughty children made fun of him by yelling "Tõll, Tõll, wake up, there is a war in 
the yard". Tõll rose, grew angry and went back to his grave, swearing never to come back.

Legend of Saarema

01 December 2023

Viaduct over the Ruhr River in Hardecke, North Rhine - Westphalia (Germany)

Wohl fand ich der Reize mehr nirgend schier
Und Becher- und Sangesgetöne,
Doch immer zog es zurück mich nach dir,
Mein Ruhrtal, mein einziges schöne.

Nowhere else did I find the charms
and sounds of cups and songs,
but I was always drawn back to you,
My Ruhr valley, my only beautiful one.

Extracted from Pfingsten im Ruhrtal
by Heinrich Kampchen

Bridge over the Hurricane Gulch River in Alaska (United States)


“John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you’ll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there’s a lot of truth to that.” 

Tom Bodett

21 November 2023

Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge over the Moskva River in Moscow (Russia)

 


“Moscow was an enormous city, but there was nowhere to go in it.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn