Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

Evidence of Stone Age tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over Europe - the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows the original tunnel network must have been huge.

Some experts believe the network was a way of protecting man from predators while others believe that some of the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground.

The book notes that chapels were often built by the entrances perhaps because the Church were afraid of the heathen legacy the tunnels might have represented, and wanted to negate their influence.

Somost noarrow street is not the most narrow - neither in Europe nor in the world.
Don´t trust the guides.
I have shown turists Hamlet´s grave close to Kronborg Castle. Did I always tell them there is cat with the name Hamlet buried underneath?

Who came first, the cat or the prince?

Btw, Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet who died in childhood.

RSC theatre Stratford upon Avon.

The Hypogeum in Malta is one such excavation, and is possibly the spookiest place I've ever explored.

Zoological Museum, Copenhagen

Natural History Museum, London.

The British Museum, London.






And from the inside......

Hampton Court (Chapel)






Window (Great Hall)

And Chimneys.......

The ruin is that of an abbey church called Little St Mary (as there is a big St Mary also) in Lippstadt, built in 12th century. The town was fought over during the 30 Year War and at one time was the headquater of Wallenstein. It is said that the abbey was attacked then and the church burnt out.

East meets West.

The Meridian Line, Greenwich Observatory....





Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The red ball lifts and drops at 1pm each day, so the Captains on the Thames can synchronise their Smartphones.






Its surroundings are a bit more built up nowadays....

That was some interestings tour around London and Lippstadt.

Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket Musuem
It is also supported by the Carlsberg brewery.
Once when I was sitting there enjoying the art one elderly lady said to another one . "Am I glad the Danes drink so much beer"

I quite like rush hour in London.....

The new funicular in Le Treport, built in 2006, linking the town with the cliff-tops.

Regardless of size???

Heidelberg Mountain Railway, in the tunnel between Kornmarkt in Heidelberg's old town and the intermediate station at Heidelberg Castle

Lynton to Lynmouth funicular, Devon, England.

This must be about the greenest method of transport. The two carriages are connected to one long loop of cable. When one carriage is at the top, the other is at the bottom.
The top carriage fills up a water reservoir underneath, from a piped stream. When the reservoir is full, the bottom carriage starts letting water out of its reservoir, until the weight imbalance causes the both carriages to move.
The carriages pass each other halfway, and a brake is used to slow the lower one as it reaches the bottom.
The top carriage now has an empty reservoir, which it fills from the piped stream, then the lower one starts emptying until the imbalance etc etc.

No fossil fuel. No CO2, just water being taken in and let out....

Clever, those Victorians.




View from the top.....

This Schloßbergbahn is a funicular railway in the Austrian city of Graz. It connects the city centre with the Schloßberg, a hill and the site of a (demolished) castle.





(The views in Heidelberg and Graz from above are really great - both places can be walked up, too. [Done it in tram and by feet.])

That's a little spooky, a bridge to nowhere. In the first photo I can't see the doorway, and even if there is one, the buildings look hard on humans.