"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?

- Hendrik

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