Bridge of love

Hohenzollern  Bridge Cologne

I finally managed to insert a photo. This is the Hohenzollern Bridge crossing the Rhine. Here we found an unexpected surprise. By the side of the walk way, you can see what looks like a multi-coloured mosaic from this distance. But click on the photo so enlarging it,  look closer  and you will find it isn't that at all. In fact all that colour is provided by hundreds of differently coloured & designed padlocks. On most of them the names of two lovers are scrawled. The idea seems to be to fix the padlock on mesh forming the wall & throw the key in the Rhine, or to give it to the object of your love, as a sign of how undying & true that love is. Maybe one day such an act would have appealed to us, but these days. I feel we've proved our love & its endurance by being still together, & in love, nearly forty years on. Such signs seem a bit belated & irrelevant.