Monday, July 05, 2010

The Dolomites

When it gets really hot and stuffy this is where I would like to be :) It is one of those places that look unreal.

Wikipedia tells us that:
"The name "Dolomites" is derived from the famous French mineralogist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu who was the first to describe the rock, dolomite, a type of carbonate rock which is responsible for the characteristic shapes and colour of these mountains; previously they were called the "pale mountains," and it was only in the early 19th century that the name was Frenchified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites

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