The Great Continental Divide or a raindrop's journey though Europe

Have you ever stopped, looked at the rain, the raindrops falling and started thinking about the journey ahead of them?

Whether you're standing in the rain in Dijon, Madrid, London, Kyiv, Istanbul or Milano, these raindrops you see touching the ground are all beginning a long journey, sometimes taking years to achieve, that will take them in complete opposite directions, some will cross hundred, if not thousands of kilometers and reach the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea or the Great Atlantic Ocean... The great divide (here, the line between river catchments that go in opposite directions) runs across Europe, and with a little knowledge in history, one can easily see how this line makes sense and reflects history and society.

So, next time you're in Prague and take a bus to Vienna, or travel from Madrid to Barcelona, from Lyon to Paris or cross the Swiss-Italian border, just stop for a moment and take the time to reflect on this: you're entering a new hydrological realm, something great, something greater than us!