I left New Zealand mid-2003, bound for Istanbul and a new lif. After two years, a Belgian guy lured me into his world, deep in the heart of Europe. For a long time I was an in-process immigrant. One day we married. These days it's about photography, a little red wine and wandering ... and so the journey goes.
Gert told me that ... it's a weather depression that forms on the Atlantic and then sneaks into the Channel and from there, can go anywhere ... Belgie, Frankrijk or Holland.
You know, it was one of those composed words I obviously understood, but I failed to see the meaning of.
De Standaard used it today: http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=M51V8DL1, but according to the Van Dale listing of Dutch words (and they reference the weirdest), they basically don't know it either:
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Great shot Di, but what's a
'Kanaallrat' ?
Gert told me that ... it's a weather depression that forms on the Atlantic and then sneaks into the Channel and from there, can go anywhere ... Belgie, Frankrijk or Holland.
True dinks! ;)
That's just too beautiful.
Thanks Di!
You know, it was one of those composed words I obviously understood, but I failed to see the meaning of.
De Standaard used it today:
http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=M51V8DL1,
but
according to the Van Dale listing of Dutch words (and they reference the weirdest),
they basically don't know it either:
http://www.vandale.nl/vandale/opzoeken/woordenboek/?zoekwoord=kanaalrat.
Anyway, this violent wind knocked over a couple of my balcony plants, time for a cleanup!
There's another storm expected this afternoon. Winds of 80kms they say, apparently last night's were just 60kms ...
Good luck with your balcony work.
Dank u wel, Manic. It impressed us too.
see i would have guessed it was a rat that liked gondola rides in canals.
see, i probably would have too. gert had to explain :)
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