Working by the water
September 8th 2007 20:22
While traveling from Luxembourg this morning and into Germany to the Frankfurt Hahn airport, we passed through a town called Bernkastle-Kues. It has this double-barrel name because part of the town was on one side of the Mosel and part on the other. A
lovely town, with delightful well-preserved buildings from earlier centuries and a real sense of life. And flowing through the middle were the strong currents of the Mosel.
But the interesting thing was that the level of the water was only a few feet from the upper levels of the banks. It wouldn’t take much for the Mosel to build up strength and take over the town. It may have done it in the past.
Yet in spite of the possibility of flooding, waterfront places have something that appeals to human beings – in all sorts of parts of the world, from South Carolina to NC waterfront property is highly sought after, from Dunedin to Auckland, from the Thames to the Tyne.
I don’t know why humans like living by the water. Whether it’s the quiet peacefulness of water flowing past your property or what, or that sense of movement just by your ear, or the restlessness that stirs something beneath the surface of your soul. Whatever it is, when I retire I wouldn’t mind living by the water somewhere as a change from living on a hill. Sitting there with my laptop humming, tapping away on the keys, the water in the background gurgling…doesn’t it just get you?
Of course, having just acquired a new job it’s probable that retirement is a bit further away than I anticipated!
But the interesting thing was that the level of the water was only a few feet from the upper levels of the banks. It wouldn’t take much for the Mosel to build up strength and take over the town. It may have done it in the past.
Yet in spite of the possibility of flooding, waterfront places have something that appeals to human beings – in all sorts of parts of the world, from South Carolina to NC waterfront property is highly sought after, from Dunedin to Auckland, from the Thames to the Tyne.
I don’t know why humans like living by the water. Whether it’s the quiet peacefulness of water flowing past your property or what, or that sense of movement just by your ear, or the restlessness that stirs something beneath the surface of your soul. Whatever it is, when I retire I wouldn’t mind living by the water somewhere as a change from living on a hill. Sitting there with my laptop humming, tapping away on the keys, the water in the background gurgling…doesn’t it just get you?
Of course, having just acquired a new job it’s probable that retirement is a bit further away than I anticipated!
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