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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 826247" data-attributes="member: 53455">The “Pont du Diable” on the Aber Wrac’h (2013)There are many Ponts du Diable (i.e., “Devil’s Bridges”) in France. They often involve daring feats of civil engineering over deep gorges in mountainous environments. This one is extremely old, some date it from Roman times, others from the 900s, but none later than that. It has been restored in the early 2000s.For this “bridge”, I guess the aid of the Devil was necessary because it is built across an aber, which means an estuary that the Atlantic fills up twice a day, covering the walkway entirely, which must have made it difficult to build. Anyway, help of the Devil or not, it was very sturdily built, as it’s been there for centuries! If you venture across, remember it is extremely slippery and watch your step!Nikon D3S, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]412300[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 826247, member: 53455"] [B]The [I]“Pont du Diable”[/I] on the Aber Wrac’h (2013)[/B] There are many [I]Ponts du Diable[/I] (i.e., “Devil’s Bridges”) in France. They often involve daring feats of civil engineering over deep gorges in mountainous environments. This one is extremely old, some date it from Roman times, others from the 900s, but none later than that. It has been restored in the early 2000s. For this “bridge”, I guess the aid of the Devil was necessary because it is built across an [I]aber,[/I] which means an estuary that the Atlantic fills up twice a day, covering the walkway entirely, which must have made it difficult to build. Anyway, help of the Devil or not, it was very sturdily built, as it’s been there for centuries! If you venture across, remember it is extremely slippery and watch your step! Nikon D3S, Nikkor 24-70mm, ƒ/2.8 G lens, handheld. [ATTACH type="full"]412300[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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