Thursday, April 16, 2009

Opal Coast

The Northern French coast is called the Côte d'Opale (Opaalkust). In the middle ages it belonged to Flanders and people spoke Dutch over there. Since then the language border moved north, and nowadays everyone speaks French (except a few people near the Belgian border).

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