Atdtda[20]: Ostend, located in the west.

[Cometman]

sorry, missed this one earlier

(bowed under a bewilderment of work lately)

also, I think the Dutch / German confusion was in Mason & Dixon,
and took place at the Vrooms.




--- Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Strange thing that Ostend, being physically the West, is called the
> End 
> of the East.  This has to do with the sea currents that come from the
> 
> northwest and end at the shore -- reason why there is a harbour in 
> Ostend:  was easy for a fisherman to start out in the South, turn 
> around, and get back.
> 
> Was what my father told me, who grew up there (born, however, as he
> was, 
> in the Ypres salient).
> 
> I will add some notes on Ostend, but I know I should talk about 
> Brussels.  The link between these 2 is the Belgian Royal family.
> 
> 


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