When you are told that a bridge is one of the 100 top bridges in the region, your interested is piqued. You imagine a fine stone construction a la Charles Bridge in Prague or maybe a swinging rope footbridge or some kind of suspension bridge or one of them lifts-uppy type bridges like Tower Bridge. When you are told that you have already crossed the bridge, you wonder to yourself, how did I miss that? Was I looking at my phone again when I crossed it. What a fool I am? I hurriedly retraced my steps, looking for this magnificent structure. But there was no wonderful erection to be found, just a small, slightly disappointing crossing. How bad must the other bridges in Kanagawa be, if this pathetic little thing had made the top 100? But then I looked up, looked left, looked right and realised that sometimes it is not the thing itself that creates the beauty, but the environment it is in.
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| In the top 100! |
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| Nothing special. |
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| I know I haven't been coy about my time in Japan |
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| but I do promise to stop carping on about it. |
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