My drawing of a distant childhood memory, and it may not even exist. It somehow scared little me witless- thalassophobia, vertigo and trypophobia combined! Somehow the fear I felt and the way I was ridiculed for being afraid stayed with me and I would like to revisit the place to confront it. I bet it was really not that big and scary but I was a weird kid.
But I never figured out what it was. It was a place I visited with my parents during a vacation.
This I remember:
-it was a deep, stepped hole, which had water cascading down in it. It had a metal fence around it, I think. You could stand near it and look down into it. It was so deep! But then, everything is huge when you are 6.
-it was made of dark, shiny, wet stone, like basalt. It seemed old, like maybe built in the 19th century.
-it was near a river, may have been the Rhine, Meuse or Mosel.
-it was probably in West Germany, Belgium or the north of France. May have been Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria or the Netherlands. Reasonably sure it was not in the UK.
-maybe it was (near) the source of a major river?
-maybe part of a hydroelectic installation?
-maybe I saw a leaky old dry dock? Though I remember it as round.
So, yeah. I hope this is allowed. Sorry to be so vague. Thanks!