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Slide & Splash and the Mystery Bridge
Whilst I was in Portugal, we crossed this very pretty bridge, just east of Portimão, on our way to Slide & Splash (I suppose we probably crossed it on the way back too, but I was…
Rio-Niterói Bridge
This is the Rio-Niterói Bridge, which connects Rio de Janeiro with Niterói in Brazil. Built between 1969 and 1974, this gargantuan structure is over 13 kilometres long (8.25 miles) and is a record holder for the…
Tower Bridge and the Tower of London
Often incorrectly referred to as 'London Bridge', this is in fact Tower Bridge. There's a story which claims that when American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought the original London Bridge in 1968 and had it rebuilt…
Bridge Between Two Continents
This is the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. Interestingly, as the Bosporus strait is the boundary between Europe and Asia, the bridge actually connects two continents. In May 2005 tennis star Venus Williams played a show…
Broken Bridge
This bridge near Istanbul, Turkey looks likes it been smashed to pieces! Presumably it's under construction, and they're floating the pieces out into place. Either that or it's some sort of freaky swing-bridge... 😉 Thanks to…
The Colgante Bridge
This is the Colgante Transporter Bridge across the river Nervión in Portugalete, Spain. This extremely rare type of bridge (apparently there's only 8 of them left in the world) is designed to carry a segment of…
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