What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?
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Sep 2018
12:22am, 13 Sep 2018
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Dvorak
The highest point in The Netherlands is 887m high.
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Sep 2018
6:59am, 13 Sep 2018
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Raemond
[and it's the point where NL, Belgium, and Germany meet. Basically the whole country is downhill to the sea from there]
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Sep 2018
10:07am, 13 Sep 2018
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Markymarkmark
[Doesn't that make the Netherlands a super-wide & long beach, then? :-)]
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Sep 2018
10:10am, 13 Sep 2018
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Raemond
[I think it's a river delta with delusions of grandeur. Certainly it's about 85% sand]
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Sep 2018
10:54am, 13 Sep 2018
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McGoohan
[Me and youngest went cycling through the borderlands between France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands last year. It was a bit of a shock aiming for the three countries point only for youngest - who had been there before - to tell me it was up the top of a Dutch mountain!]
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Sep 2018
11:21am, 13 Sep 2018
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Dvorak
Not quite so. That peak is the Vaalserberg, which is 322m and features in the Amstel Gold Race, a top rank cycling one-day road race. Which therefore is less than half the height u.d.m. of Mount Scenery, the highest point in (to be strictly accurate) the Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. |
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Sep 2018
11:22am, 13 Sep 2018
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McGoohan
[Well, it *felt* like a mountain ;-)]
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Sep 2018
11:32am, 13 Sep 2018
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Dvorak
[I'm sure the Dutch think that, too. Meanwhile, I wonder how this project is going? spiegel.de ]
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Sep 2018
2:20pm, 13 Sep 2018
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ChrisHB
That the Dutch think the Sauerland is mountainous.
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Sep 2018
3:04pm, 13 Sep 2018
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Jambomo
That the Trail Du Mont Blanc is a thing.
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