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[Holle Bolle Gijss]

[Graham]

If it did torrential rain in holland for 40 days and nights. That'd be the one place that'd need Noahs Ark.

[Holle Bolle Gijss]

If it did torrential rain in holland for 40 days and nights. That'd be the one place that'd need Noahs Ark.

The Netherlands in 1953 during the big flooding.

[Peyrol]

Prato, near Florence: the city is 40% asian

[The Lawspeaker]

Dutch troops fighting the Nazi foe in 1945. This picture was taken during skirmishes in Hedel.

[Albion]

The Netherlands in 1953 during the big flooding.

I think East Anglia got flooded too, Canvey Island was practically submerged. The Netherlands got the worst of it, especially around Zeeland.
Any storms heading down from the Norwegian Sea got funnelled between East Anglia and NL as the sea gets narrower towards the Straights of Dover.
The terrain is similar on both sides, much of East Anglia and the Thames Estuary is low lying.





That flood led to the Thames Barrier being built to protect London from any potential floods such as those experienced in East Anglia. In Zeeland there's a larger version of the same idea that opens and closes like the Thames Barrier to allow shipping down the Rhine and into Antwerp.



How people picture London without the barrier / with global warming raising sea levels / after a tsunami:

Not all bad then.

[Albion]

HMS Ocean passing through the Thames Barrier for the Olympics. It's probably the largest of the fleet that would fit through there, the "London" docks are at Tilbury these days.

[PetiteParisienne]

Two pictures I took last weekend while driving through rainy Norfolk.

[Albion]

An English vineyard (Denbies). They're rare at the moment but getting more common, especially in Southern England where the summers are more decent.
From what I've read it seems a lot of people have success with the hardier grape varieties outdoors all over England and even in Scotland. I think to make wine the sugar content has to be quite high though, those people were growing for table grape (as I'll be doing once my vine is mature enough).
In France and Spain a lot is wasted and converted to fuel. It's a bit inefficient and a waste really, maybe some of these growers should slowly start growing more seedless grapes for table grapes, we could do that here too.

[Smaug]

Pedrinhas Paulista, countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Brazil received many Italian immigrants between 1880 and 1930, and 70% of these immigrants settled in the state of São Paulo. There are about 25 million Italian-Brazilians, and from those, 13 million live in São Paulo, the rest being spread in Southern Brazil and other Southeastern states like Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais. From these 13 million Italian-Paulistas*, nearly 5.5 million live in the capital city of São Paulo, making of São Paulo the most Italian city in the world.
Most of these immigrants came from Northern Italy, mainly from Veneto and Lombardia, but there’s also a good contribution from Southern and Central Italy, mainly from Naples, Calabria, Tuscany and Rome.
Pedrinhas Paulista is just one of the many cities founded by these immigrants. The architecture of the city is indistinguishable Italian, and even have a funny “Roman” look.
As a matter of curiosity, yesterday, 10th July, it was the “Day of Pizza” in São Paulo.
*Paulista: Someone born in the state of São Paulo. Paulistano is someone born in the city of São Paulo

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Monsenhor Ernesto Square



Playing cards… Truco!



Municipal Theatre



Municipal Chamber



Immigrant Memorial



Post Office . “I need to send a letter from Britannia to Cisalpine Gaul, can you do it?”



Just another square…





Dance Group. Some look Calabrian, some look Venetian



Random building



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