Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

Bisse de Gorperi

Those bisses are favourite routes for cyclists ...

The Victoria Tunnel, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Victoria Tunnel runs beneath the city from the Town Moor down to the Tyne. It was built in 1842 to transport coal from Leazes Main Colliery to riverside staithes (jetties) ready for loading onto ships. In 1939, it was converted into an air-raid shelter to protect hundreds of Newcastle citizens during World War II.

Jannowitzbrücke (Jannowitzbridge)is a bridge, underground and railway station on/over the Spree river in Berin. The underground station was the of the ghost stations to be reopened after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Renaissance Güstrow Palace, Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

Fassade, inside (court yard)

Inside, the main entrance

Pergola at the palatial gardens of Güstrow

Easter in Sweden
Twigs are collected from birch trees that slowly awake from the winter and chicken eggs are painted in colourful designs. The twigs are put in big vases and dressed with colourful feathers.


Other Easter decorations include "påskkärringar" (a special kind of Eastern witches) that fly on a broom. The hearsay gives that all these "påskkärringar" are on their way by means of their booms heading to their annual meeting with the Devil at Blåkulla (eng. “The Blue Gables”).


So we make bonfires to scare the witches away when they return


GLAD PÅSK

We celebrate Easter next weekend here.

Back to the topic, but related to the above post

Easter valley railway ("Ostertalbahn"), viaduct near Haupersweiler, Saar, Germany

We celebrate next week too - just wanted to say hello in time.
Fitting picture Walter.

A rather small tunnel in Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Nauehausen on the Rhine Fall) in Switzerland. (Above the tunnel is a factory and test centre of a railway infrastructure company [Alstom])

Klein aber fein und kein reinfall.

Well, you perhaps know that the Rhine Fall is a Reinfall

Rome. Tunnels beneath the Colosseum and Roman Forum.

Tree tunnel road in Northern Ireland

Tunnel of Screams: Located near Niagara Falls is the place where the people known as "Screaming Tunnel" or Tunnel screams. According to legend, if one strikes a match in this place will hear a chilling scream and then a breeze blowing off the match, like someone blowing. It is said that the family farm was burned girl and the girl ran to help when she fell into the tunnel.

Cryptoporticus in the Roman forum at Reims, France

Columns of old arcade in Morella, Spain

This place speaks to me.

It's actually a (very famous and wellknown) 1928 Autochrome image

Today, those arcades look like this