In traveling from Zermatt to Melide in early November, I changed trains at Domodosola, just south of the alps in Italy’s Piedmont region. I had roughly an hour’s layover here, during which I found an outside bench and took these photos while I ate the portable lunch I’d packed that morning before taking the first train down from Zermatt. In one of the shots of the train station below, you’ll see a reference to the Centovalli rail line that runs from here up to Locarno – a bit of which we’ve shown you before, when I came down the other direction later that week. 🙂
There are several pieces of infrastructure that bridge water in this post from the Vaartse Rijn train station in Utrecht, where I happened to be a few weeks ago while visiting some friends recently out of hospital in various parts of NL. None of these various forms of “bridge” are for cars. Just above, you see the Vaartse Rijn going generally left to right, and a side canal heads up to the top and left, bridged by a bike and foot bride into the station area. The trains themselves cross on the elevator tracks in the top right corner, and passengers get to and from those tracks on stairs, some of which also cross the water itself. I do so love living in a country that spends money on non-automotive infrastructure!
Oops, somehow I skipped this lovely new series when I ran through the “6” set, so now I need to catch up. Since we’ve shown you bridges in Paris and Berlin so far in this series, I’m home to Amsterdam for this first catch-up post, a lovely pedestrian bridge (bikes also, but the paths to the left side there aren’t paved and do wind a fair bit through a surprisingly wild patch of parkland) the park across the street from me.
Last shots from my early-July stay in Heusden for a work week, with one shot from a bike ride I did across the Maas in Geldersland, the church from the town I believe was Spijk below right.
Yes, Mary Stuart aka Queen of Scots was also Queen of France for a while too. The sign at the bottom notes that these are a series of sculpture of famous queens and other women of power and influence through the ages. Taken in the Jardins de Luxembourg, adjacent to the Palais de Luxembourg where France’s Senate now convenes, but which Louis XIII seems to have built for his Mom, Marie de Medici (another woman of power), after her husband passed and left her queen mum instead of queen :-), as it were.
The blessing and curse of train travel through Switzerland is that you see so many beautiful things out your train windows, and you think to yourself “I’m sure I’ll remember which of the lakes and goregeous lakeside towns that our train passed through en route from Locarno to Zurich this one was.” And it turns out you’re wrong, because I’m not sure if these were taken along the eastern shores of Lake Lucerne, or the Zugersee. I’ll need to get back there some time to identify it properly :-).
More from the first morning’s exploration of the slopes between the town of Zermatt and the Matterhorn. Only the bottom image here shows the Matterhorn itself b/c the other four photos were looking north, back down-valley, as I climbed up towards the hanging bridge over the creek that created the valley.
Oops, somehow I skipped this lovely new series when I ran through the “6” set, so now I need to catch up. Since we’ve shown you bridges in Paris and Berlin so far in this series, I’m home to Amsterdam for this first catch-up post, a lovely pedestrian bridge (bikes also, but the paths to the left side there aren’t paved and do wind a fair bit through a surprisingly wild patch of parkland) the park across the street from me.
(so much world, so little time....) 