Hendrik van Rooyen schreef: > "Roel Schroeven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hendrik van Rooyen schreef: >>> "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Perhaps in Belgium they prefer climbing mountains over walking up and >>>> down gentle hills? >>> Mountains ? Hills ? In Belgium ?? >>> >>> Its not called the battlefield of Europe for nothing... >> I'm not sure if this adds anything of interest (well actually I'm pretty >> sure it doesn't), but our king Albert I was a fanatic mountain climber, >> until he died from a fall in 1934. >> > > Thanks - I was not aware of that. > Adds a whole new dimension to the phrase: > > "The Fall of a King" > > What was he climbing when he fell, btw?
A rock in Marche-les-Dames, see the picture at http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Roy-m%C3%A5tche.jpg That's in the Walloon region; Flanders is of course much more flat than that. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
