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A trunk covered with todstools.
04-Tussocks * Where trees have been cut, the grass forms tussocks - sign of a somewaht wet area. * 1984 x 1488 * (550KB)

05-Sodded * An area that is sodded - the top layer removed, in order to have heahter re-appear (heather seed can sprout after many, many years) * 1984 x 1488 * (674KB)

06-Star * A todstool in the form of a star. Not too common... * 1984 x 1488 * (367KB)

07-SmallerStars * but here, a small bunch pops out of old beech leaves * 1984 x 1488 * (488KB)

08-Pyramid * Napolean troops that were encamped near Austerlitz needed something to do - and they built a piramid; The tower on top is an addition of much later days. The pyramid has been restored only a few years ago, but even today it's not entirely certain how the French soldiers were able to keep the slopes together. * 1984 x 1488 * (295KB)
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10-Valley * The landscape North of Woudenberg - the flat lands of the Geldersche Vallei * 3732 x 1088 * (354KB)

11-Berghuis * Just a 2 kilometres from Autserlitz, the Utrechtse Heuvelrug raises - the white house (named Berghuis lies on the summit of a road tht climbs steadily - about 15 meters in a few hundred meters * 1791 x 987 * (238KB)

12-StoopsCopula * A small buil;ding named Stoops Copula on top of it's own hill. We were to pass it on the right. * 1984 x 1488 * (669KB)

13-ChildrensCorso * Arriving in Austerlitz, a Childrren's Corso was due to set off. One of the carrages - themed Jungle - had a cage on it with these little tigers. * 1488 x 1984 * (632KB)
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