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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 10 March 2009 - Volume 01<br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Music"</span><br>
<br>
Beste Paul,<br style="">
<br style="">
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Mike:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
I guess you could go far enough upstream to get round the rivers!</span></span></p>
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If you follow mountain ridges (like Marcus wrote) you could indeed avoid having
to cross rivers. But then your feet might get wet again because of (melting)
snow at high altitudes *s*. Besides, I don't think horses are very keen on
technical climbing.<br style="">
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</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">And Luc:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Going underneath is just plain cheating.</span></span></p>
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I wonder if famous Dutchman Bram van der Stok, would have agreed if you would
have told him *s*.<br>
<br>
During WW II, he was a POW who managed to escape from concentration camp Stalag
Luft III, digging a tunnel under the well guarded camp. 76 escaped, but 73 were
caught again by the Germans. Bram and two Norwegians succeeded however.<br>
<br>
Kind greetings,<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Luc Hellinckx</span><span style="color: navy;"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Â </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">----------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Â </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Music"</span><br>
<br>
</p><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Arctic<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> , Alantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans,
plus the Black Sea/Mediteranean, are all separate drainage basins.
Mathematically, there is bound to be a drainage-free path between them. It
would be a hell of a long way though....</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Â </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">As you say,
man-made watercourses can cut across, but they have bridges too.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Â </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">But most
imprtantly, rising from the discussion, there really is no "Europe" in any physical geographic or geological
basis; it's an open door. The Urals are nominally taken as the boundary,
but there is a gap over 500km wide between the southern end of the Urals and
the Caspian Sea, that is as flat as pool table most of the way.Â
Plenty of room to squeeze a bagpipe through!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Â </span></p>
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