TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

lunes, abril 12, 2004

8:06 PM
Posted by jodi rose

later that day....

went out to find the calatrava bridge, somewhere in the city but no-one knew quite where. The bridge name being Bach Felippe de Roda II, and knowing it was over a railway, decided to head towards the street with the same name and hope it was the right place. Peter came with me, took the metro out to Clots, and walked for a while amongst the multi coloured high rise apartments - then there it was. Gorgeous, simple, gleaming in the afternoon sunshine. Fantastic life going on underneath the bridge, with 4 games of volleyball, people hanging out playing cards, music, laughter, chatter. It was a relief to get out of the old tourist filled town and into the city where the majority of people actually live. Peter took some photos on his fantastic old large format camera, we listened to the bridge - completely unlike any other, and particularly musical. This project I´m proposing to Santiago Calatrava will be gorgeous when it is done, wanted to stay and talk to people about life and how they used the bridge, but was feeling shy and low energy, so we came back into town. Stopped in a pasteria to buy some little cakes, and the radio was playing "bridge over troubled water." last time I heard that was after the trip to glienicke brucke in potsdam, berlin.

Will decide on locations to return to, and spend more time in the future. Must go upstairs now and deliver the ingredients for nigel to make cheesecake.