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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 325310, member: 2844"]I used to live about a kilometer from Scheveningen, in The Hague, and I can tell you, no coastal cliffs. The thing in the picture is a sand dune. I know the Scheveningen and Kijkduin dunes very well, I used to go there for walks. They were very much dunes, made of loose sand. The grass you see in your picture is planted there to keep the sand from being blown away.</p><p>I am Dutch and I can assure you, there are definitely no cliffs anywhere on the Dutch coast. They don't call it the Netherlands, Lowlands, Low Countries by the Sea for nothing.</p><p>The few small cliffs we have, are located inland, in the southeast of the country. The Dutch like to think they are mountains.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Slavante, St Pietersberg (St Peter's mountain):</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slavante.nl%2FFaciliteiten%2Fimages%2FSlavantehoogtefoto6juni2014.jpg&sp=6055bac50dc95fdf3c793e89f4de0d0b" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 325310, member: 2844"]I used to live about a kilometer from Scheveningen, in The Hague, and I can tell you, no coastal cliffs. The thing in the picture is a sand dune. I know the Scheveningen and Kijkduin dunes very well, I used to go there for walks. They were very much dunes, made of loose sand. The grass you see in your picture is planted there to keep the sand from being blown away. I am Dutch and I can assure you, there are definitely no cliffs anywhere on the Dutch coast. They don't call it the Netherlands, Lowlands, Low Countries by the Sea for nothing. The few small cliffs we have, are located inland, in the southeast of the country. The Dutch like to think they are mountains.:hilarious: Slavante, St Pietersberg (St Peter's mountain): [IMG]https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slavante.nl%2FFaciliteiten%2Fimages%2FSlavantehoogtefoto6juni2014.jpg&sp=6055bac50dc95fdf3c793e89f4de0d0b[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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