and I even managed many years ago to climb to the top of Ulm Cathedral, the tallest spire in Europe with lots of steps and openings to the severe depths below, but high bridges and precipitous drops have become really difficult. I walked over Clifton Suspension Bridge 2 or 3 years ago and had to be led over.
Today I went to Saltash, which was OK on the train
but due to the outrageous infrequency of trains from Saltash, I decided to brave the Tamar Bridge
and walk back to Plymouth (of course I should have caught the frequent bus from Saltash, but I didnt consider that). The bridge swayed, I swear, and the fence wasn't nearly tall enough to stop a vertiginous fool like me from having climbing and jumping thoughts. It was made even worse by the fact that the footway has been tacked onto the outside of the suspension bridge (in 2001), making it seem even more precarious.
When I landed, I got a pint of lager at the Royal Albert Inn, below the bridges. "Kronenbourg, please"
"A half?"
"Do I look like a f*cking grandad?"
Obviously I did.
5 comments:
Vertiginous fool? You and me both! I don't much like the bridge on the Nantes ring road, which I usually negotiate in the outside lane (i.e. furthest away from the edge) and with ghostly-white knuckles!
Vertigo is a closed book to me. I love the gastric-butterfly feeling of being high up on tall things. Flying is great too, of course.
Rather you than me :) I don'think I'd like to be on a shakey bridge on a tacked on foot path.
You went via the Royal Albert? That's a bit out of the way to walk back.
Shame for you Shakey Bridge footpath has shut - that one was even more fun!
I am lucky enough to have erected scaffold to underside of both bridges and have pictures to prove it .
Virtigo my ass get out there and do a Bungee !!!
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