A big bridge

I'm watching a programme about the Millau Bridge in southern France - the world's tallest vehicular bridge (probably). It's one of those programmes with an ominous sounding voiceover making everything sound much harder and more thrilling than it really is. "Nothing had even been attempted on this scale before", "One small error could cost the lives of billions of people" - lots of that sort of thing. Since it's a French bridge, many of the people involved in making it were also French. This means that when they are dubbed into English, they sound like the people off of Eurotrash. Hah. Foreigners are funny.

It's a truly impressive structure though. Tall, like me. Slender, like me. Able to carry the weight of hundreds of cars and lorries, like me.

The best line in the whole programme came near the start. Whilst referring to the limestone nature of the surrounding countryside, it said something like (and I can't remember the exact words, but this is near enough): "What's great for the manufacture of cheese is terrible for a Megastructure". Wise words.