The route included the Stalheimskleiva road, with its notorious hairpin bends that make San Francisco's Lombard Street look like child's play.
The Herd Boy, with their two children, ran after the Weaving Girl, but the Lady Queen mother took out her hairpin and drew a river between them.
The road to Jalalabad is a two-hour trek through mountain roads winding along a steep drop, and my stomach lurched with each hairpin turn.
So she took out, with emotion, the pledges he had given And, through his envoy, sent him back a shell box and gold hairpin, But kept one branch of the hairpin and one side of the box, Breaking the gold of the hairpin, breaking the shell of the box; "Our souls belong together," she said, " like this gold and this shell -- Somewhere, sometime, on earth or in heaven, we shall surely And she sent him, by his messenger, a sentence reminding him Of vows which had been known
