10-26-2006, 09:49 PM
Here are two photos of the Dutch river area that no longer exists. In fact, they are not entirely off-topic, but first take a look:
Number 1:
![[Image: kesteren_carvo.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/1/germania/kesteren_carvo.JPG)
Number 2:
![[Image: rijswijk_levefanum.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/1/germania/rijswijk_levefanum.JPG)
I hope you can feel why I love this landscape. The Dutch do not have mountains or prairies or deserts, but our rivers have a beauty of their own too. Or used to have it, when it was a "small" landscape, with small meadows and fields, poplars, et cetera. This is a photo what it looks like now, number 3:
![[Image: maurik_mannaricum.JPG]](http://www.livius.org/a/1/germania/maurik_mannaricum.JPG)
It was not entirely off-topic, as I said, because all these pictures were taken in the country of the ancient Batavians, and are all sites that have offered Roman finds.
(1) Carvo, modern Kestern
(2) Levefanum, modern Rijswijk
(3) Mannaricum, modern Maurik
Number 1:
Number 2:
I hope you can feel why I love this landscape. The Dutch do not have mountains or prairies or deserts, but our rivers have a beauty of their own too. Or used to have it, when it was a "small" landscape, with small meadows and fields, poplars, et cetera. This is a photo what it looks like now, number 3:
It was not entirely off-topic, as I said, because all these pictures were taken in the country of the ancient Batavians, and are all sites that have offered Roman finds.
(1) Carvo, modern Kestern
(2) Levefanum, modern Rijswijk
(3) Mannaricum, modern Maurik
