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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #426 on: 14 November, 2011, 05:06:57 pm »
:-*

Multi-pointed shiny thing award to our turkish correspondent! 

(You are still in Turkey aren't you?  I get confused easily by this geography stuff...)

Yes - but uploading photos from 1500 mıles and three countries ago!

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #427 on: 14 November, 2011, 05:35:32 pm »
Regardless, ıt was a lovely detour.  When I was walkıng out, the local kıds were floatıng tealıghts down the river - presumably an Eastern European varıatin of Flaming Pooh Sticks, and one of the parents told me I was the first tourist ever to visit it.  It's a must-see.
I've no idea what they were doing, but in Poland there's a similar tradition on Midsummer's Night. Girls are supposed to float the candles downstream and the boy that fishes a girl's candle out of the water is destined to marry her. I guess it's a picturesque excuse for folklore rumpy-pumpy!
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #428 on: 14 November, 2011, 05:42:21 pm »
They were a bit young for that! Very picturesque, though.

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #429 on: 14 November, 2011, 06:04:19 pm »
And a final two from Serbia:


bridge in Serbia by dean.clementson, on Flickr


Serbian footbridge by dean.clementson, on Flickr


Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #430 on: 14 November, 2011, 06:28:36 pm »

What- this one?

Yep, that's the one...
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #431 on: 14 November, 2011, 09:10:33 pm »

What- this one?

Yep, that's the one...

Start of the Windsor-Chester-Windsor  Marlow-Knutsford-Marlow 600 that was.

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #432 on: 15 November, 2011, 09:12:27 am »

What- this one?

Yep, that's the one...

Start of the Windsor-Chester-Windsor  Marlow-Knutsford-Marlow 600 that was.

Also very early (or late depending on direction) in the Marlow- Maidenhead- Marlow 14 mile (ish) daily round trip commute ;D

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #433 on: 23 November, 2011, 08:05:24 am »
Back in October, we did the coastal walk from Widemouth to Crackington Haven. Beautiful, stunning scenery. Extremely windy so fairly dodgy at times, and the steep descents were painful on the knees.  As soon as you reach the bottom of the cliff, it's a quick 'breather' and then another climb. Here's a nice little bridge on route, and where it sat in the great scheme of things. It was steep!!! If you look on the other cliff, you can make out where the path takes you.



Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #434 on: 23 November, 2011, 08:43:33 am »
And a final two from Serbia:


bridge in Serbia by dean.clementson, on Flickr


That is just the type of bridge that made my rear end do the 'Sixpence- Half Crown Shuffle' when I was patrolling Northern Ireland :o

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #435 on: 23 November, 2011, 08:51:47 am »
Exceat bridge over the river Cuckmere. Golden Galleon pub in the background.



Little stone humpbacked bridge north of Alfriston, and again over the Cuckmere.




Bridge over The Ouse just before Southease, which has undergone a revamp. They've still left a nice gap between the wooden planks for glimpses of the river underneath.



Certainly never seen cycling south of Sussex


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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #437 on: 23 November, 2011, 02:34:49 pm »
Quite prosaic bridges for such a romantically iconic river.  You've reached the Euphrates!  You're proper travelling now :thumbsup:

I await photos of bridges over the Tigris ;)
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #438 on: 23 November, 2011, 02:50:55 pm »
And a final two from Serbia:


bridge in Serbia by dean.clementson, on Flickr


That is just the type of bridge that made my rear end do the 'Sixpence- Half Crown Shuffle' when I was patrolling Northern Ireland :o

I can imagine - Cave Culvert, as the Romans had it!

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #439 on: 23 November, 2011, 03:09:57 pm »
Its not so much the bridge as what might be lurking under it... Rememebr to take your Billy Goat with you..
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #440 on: 23 November, 2011, 04:03:50 pm »
Aye,

Many a Bad Man place beer kegs/ milk churns containing exotic chemical mixes and a means of setting it off under them there bridges :hand:

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #441 on: 24 November, 2011, 11:56:08 pm »
A few crossings of the River Thames in Oxford.






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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #442 on: 25 November, 2011, 08:45:39 pm »
Embra:


IMG_5209 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_5214 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #443 on: 26 November, 2011, 10:07:25 am »
Quite prosaic bridges for such a romantically iconic river.  You've reached the Euphrates!  You're proper travelling now :thumbsup:

I await photos of bridges over the Tigris ;)

I thought the last one was quıte handsome, but the camera batteries were running out so I didn't get a satisfactory shot.  And you'll have a long wait for Tigris bridges, as I'm pretty sure I'll always be east and north of ıt.

This bridge over the Aras was a bit more arresting (the Aras goes on to form the border between Turkey and Azerbaijan, and some sources claim ıt as the location of the Garden of Eden).


Cobandede Bridge, Eastern Turkey by dean.clementson, on Flickr

It even came wıth commentaryİ


Cobandede Bridge, Eastern Turkey by dean.clementson, on Flickr

And another Aras bridge, though not quite as fıne:


bridge over the Aras, Eastern Turkey by dean.clementson, on Flickr

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #444 on: 26 November, 2011, 10:11:14 am »
That first one is quite stunning.

You are making a lot of cyclists very envious Deano. I hope you're enjoying yourself :)
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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #445 on: 26 November, 2011, 01:17:47 pm »
That first one is quite stunning.

It is rather, isn't it.  Y'know, I even don't quite hate him, for a moment ;)

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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #446 on: 26 November, 2011, 01:28:33 pm »
Here's a couple from our recent trip to Amsterdam.


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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #447 on: 27 November, 2011, 11:25:56 pm »
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #448 on: 28 November, 2011, 04:04:06 pm »
Packhorse bridge over the river Kennett in Moulton, Suffolk. The river has shrunk a great deal since the 15th century: in normal conditions there's just a trickle running through a culvert under the road here.


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Re: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!)
« Reply #449 on: 28 November, 2011, 08:51:30 pm »
Is that a flint bridge?!