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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 260106, member: 2844&quot;]The first one looks like it could have been painted in my part of the world, the south of The Netherlands, possibly just over the Belgian border. </p><p>We als also have a lot of birch trees, poor soil.</p><p>This is in the hamlet of Leenderstrijp, just a few k from me:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dorpswoning.nl%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fde-boerderij%2FDorpswoning-De-BoerderijDe-Boerderij7.JPG&amp;sp=fca9989792ad0321cdc9b024fa7d1de3" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The roofs used to be thatched all the way, but after too many village fires that was prohibited. By using tiles for the lower part, the fire couldn&#039;t spread from one thatched roof to another. Outside the villages there are still old farmhouses with completely thatched roofs. </p><p>The green shutters mean the farm is not the property of a castle or a big estate. We like our independence.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Leenderstrijp is in the southeast of the red part, which is the province of Noord Brabant:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brabant.nl%2F-%2Fmedia%2Fc3a4d5d9b3a0453b848c6e9f6219c158.jpg&amp;sp=536c62c4ca774b336403cbc81a4e4d4b" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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