My morning walk

I have started taking morning walks from our place in the 8th district to the UN in the 22nd district. It is a pretty great time to walk here in the city. I get to see street crews cleaning up after parades or construction crews setting up for summer markets or Christmas markets. There always seems to be some kind of 'behind the scenes' going on at 7am.

Here is the bridge that I walk across every morning. When the winter began, we had an extremely windy day here and I got to see a lot of craziness along my walk. Trees were blown over, cars were dented, the Danube had white caps and this little boat down here got overturned. It remains overturned and I check on it everyday to see if it has been rescued, has sunk, or has been lost to the currents. Not much so far. It is overturned...it is wet...and so it remains.

These walks have been a pretty amazing way to get to know the city. I get to see new people on their way to work everyday. I have even come across some regulars. As I was crossing the bridge every morning this summer, I seemed to always come across the same biker who was headed in the opposite direction toward work. Eventually, this guy and I began to smile at each other as we crossed paths over the bridge. That smile eventually turned into him making faces at me, and now every time we pass, he makes me laugh with a tongue sticking out of his mouth. Ah, the city.