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Published: 2006-12-09 05:59:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 278; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 28
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The countryside around Hilversum/The Netherlands is very different in character. On the one hand you have those sandy moraines, with a hight up to about 30 metres, with the heathland and forests which you find on so many of my pictures, on the other hand you have the polderland which so much more typical of the Dutch landscape as it can be found everywhere here in the west of the Netherlands.On this pictures, taken between Eindegooi and Westbroek, you can see those wooded moraine "hills" in the distance, just sensing that they are indeed higher than the lowland. Beyond the hills you see the tower of the biggest of the many Hilversum churches.
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Love the green and there is a wonderful sense of calm in that picture.
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Great you are so very positive.
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Many thanks once again.
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A not a Windmill in site - quite different terrain from my country Jurgen .. Oh yes a nice shot
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No, windmills are not that common here. You have to know the places. Actually this bit of low-land is just on sea-level, so probably there were no mills here, while further to the west, where you are up to four or five yards below, you do need the mills very much (but they are electrical now, of course - the windmills just being an historical legacy).
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It reminds me of the rhynes we have here on the Somerset Levels, though your's are wider. Lovely shot Jurgen
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What are rhynes? I cannot find the word in my dictionary?
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Sorry, it's an old Somerset term for drains, the Levels are criss-crossed with them. Also, western Somerset has a large population of Dutch folk & quite a few Dutch sounding place names, Chedzoy, Westonzoyland, Polden & Middlezoy. The Abbot of Glastonbury brought over Dutch engineers in the 14th centuary, to drain the Levels. As part of their pay, he gave them land.
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This is a fascinating bit of information. I remember a bit of Somerset from my stay at Bristol in the summer of 1964, but did not know about the Dutch being there so early or at all. Actually I would not have noticed that very much at the time, as I met my lovely later and still now wife only in 1967, actually in Bangor out of all places. So you see: Britain has been vital for me!
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Seems like the UK has more to offer than its architecture & landscape then
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Yes, Britain offers so much! It was one of the best decisions of my life to study English language and literature, next to history and geography.
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I pity you! Well, of course it has its beauties of its own. But I am a hill man! So I feel a bit in a strange shop in this polderland here and am all the more happy about those moraine "hills".
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