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'Meh' is not a word in Gert's vocab in 89 he'd drop you so hard you'd be wishing he was rubbing fenders...on a dutch city bike. probably drop you on that too, up alpe d'huez no doubt.
Nether Mind the Bulwarks: Awash With Bikes BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Thu 09/21/06 12:45 AM dfg34hdb anagrafica scuola statale apparizione madonna alpe cucine
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It is reckoned a bel paese, inasmuch as it has a little tolerably level pasture and tillable land near it, and a fine alpe.
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The cattle are kept here in spring and autumn before and after their visit to the alpe.
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An alpe is a tract of the highest summer pasturage just below the snow-line, and only capable of being grazed for two or three months in every year.
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An alpe, or alp, is not, as so many people in England think, a snowy mountain.
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It will always have its chapel, and is inhabited by so considerable a number of the villagers, for so long a time both in spring and autumn, that they find it worth while to make themselves more comfortable than is necessary for the few who make the short summer visit to the alpe.
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It is at their alpe that the last water can be obtained, so we resolved to stay there and eat the provisions we had brought with us.
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I mounted farther and reached an alpe, where a man and a boy were tending a mob of calves.
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The monte is the pasture land immediately above the highest enclosed meadows and below the alpe.
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