France shows off tallest bridge and it is a new World Wonder at 343m the tallest in the world, I wonder if they will fit a Bungee platform? At the hight of the Millau bridge roadway of 270m it would be higer than the Bloukrans bridge (on the Garden Route, South Africa) jump wich at 216m is the worlds highest bungee jump at present. All I can say is Bungeeeeeeeeee, Vive La France!As it is I am putting this on my list of structures to see before I die.
All this talk of bridges makes me think of songs related to them; Burning Bridges - Mike Curb Congregation as well as similar titled ones by Status Quo and Pink Floyd, Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Simon and Garfunkel, Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers and View From the Bridge - Kim Wilde to name but a few. Lyrics are from Mike Curb's composition:
Burning Bridges - Mike Curb - from the movie Kelly's Heroes - 1971
Friends all tried to warn me
But I held my head up high
All the time they warned me
But I only passed them by
They all tried to tell me
But I guess I didn't care
I turned my back and
Left them standing there
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Joey tried to help me find a job
A while ago
When I finally got it I didn't want to go
The party Mary gave for me
When I just turned and walked away
Now there's nothing left for me to say
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Years have passed and I keep thinking
What a fool I've been
I look back into the past and
Think of way back then
I know that I lost everything
I thought I that could win
I guess I should have listened to my friends
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Burning bridges lost forevermore
Since I first heard this song the words have always reminded me how important friends are, I am glad that I have always kept my bridges unburnt, however sometimes they get burnt by others...
"When you build bridges you can keep crossing them." Rick Pitino, Lead to Success
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