There is a long, covered bridge across the Rio Grande with high bars running up the side, making it look a little like a prison.

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On the last day, I catch a bright blue village bus from the covered bridge in Lech to the lake at the end of the valley.

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At a pool near a covered bridge on the East Branch, Charlie and I once ran across two old men wearing beat-up rubber waders and stringy, woolen wading socks.

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Her middle structure, covered by the bridge which bore him, his mate, the closed wheelhouse where a man was steering shut up with the fear of being swept overboard together with the whole thing in one great crash her middle structure was like a half-tide rock awash upon a coast.

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The falls, which can be viewed from a bridge or a covered platform, are considered sacred, having been a ceremonial site for centuries.

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If you walk over the Szabadsag (Freedom) bridge to the Pest side, the ornate covered market looms on your right (open every day except Sunday), where you can buy strings of garlic or red peppers, or spicy Hungarian salami.

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Scores of oil-covered seabirds have died since an Asian freighter collided with the bay bridge and dumped 58, 000 gallons of thick bunker fuel.

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When I got there I had to stop, because the bridge was filled with people, terrified people, their suits and briefcases covered in a thick layer of white soot.

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