Could be worse. Denmark is similarly flat, but has a manmade ski hill…built on top of a trash heap. They’ve got it worse for “goofy attempts at raising their maximum elevation”
The Netherlands sincerely considered building an artificial mountain just so we could have ONE, but discarded it because it wasn’t goedkoop
Which is the most Dutch fact I knot, closely followed by “you can cycle from the north of Groningen to the south of (Dutch) Limburg in just under a day”
Cette initiative est vraiment une nouveauté dans le paysage français, parce qu’en Europe, il y en avait déjà notamment aux Pays-Bas, en Suisse, en Autriche.
Indeed already present in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria
Interesting, as a European I haven’t seen them that much in countries I visited (France, Spain, Italy)
They’re very common in the Netherlands, at least
Might be their tallest land features!
F you!
I mean it’s true but…
Could be worse. Denmark is similarly flat, but has a manmade ski hill…built on top of a trash heap. They’ve got it worse for “goofy attempts at raising their maximum elevation”
The Netherlands sincerely considered building an artificial mountain just so we could have ONE, but discarded it because it wasn’t goedkoop
Which is the most Dutch fact I knot, closely followed by “you can cycle from the north of Groningen to the south of (Dutch) Limburg in just under a day”
19 hours!
TIL
I’ve seen plenty of them in France, it’s actually quite common. They are called écoponts.
Very interesting
18 ecoponts in ten years: https://radio.vinci-autoroutes.com/article/le-succes-des-ecoponts-9639
Indeed already present in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria
You see them in lots of locations in Germany as well as the Netherlands and France
Some parts of France have many of them above “autoroutes”.