Hi whilst it was raining this morning by later this afternoon at 16:30 it cleared up. It got quite a bit warmer and had to change from long jeans to shorts etc but it was too late for a walk. At least you can see the Devils Peak at least bit of it - can you imagine why it was called after the devil?
Origins of the name
Devil's Peak was originally known as Windberg, and supposedly gets its current name from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the Devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain, forming the table cloth cloud.
In 2002 the African Christian Democratic Party attempted to have the name changed to Dove's Peak, claiming that this was the original Dutch name. In Dutch the words for devil and dove are relatively close in sound and the claim is that the name became corrupted from Duifespiek ("Dove's Peak") to Duiwelspiek ("Devil's Peak"). The English term Devil's Peak is a 19th century translation from the Dutch.
Origins of the name
Devil's Peak was originally known as Windberg, and supposedly gets its current name from the folk-tale about a Dutch man called Jan van Hunks, a prodigious pipe smoker who lived at the foot of the mountain circa 1700. He was forced by his wife to leave the house whenever he smoked his pipe. One day, while smoking on the slopes of the peak, he met a mysterious stranger who also smoked. They each bragged of how much they smoked and so they fell into a pipe-smoking contest. The stranger turned out to be the Devil and Van Hunks eventually won the contest, but not before the smoke that they had made had covered the mountain, forming the table cloth cloud.
In 2002 the African Christian Democratic Party attempted to have the name changed to Dove's Peak, claiming that this was the original Dutch name. In Dutch the words for devil and dove are relatively close in sound and the claim is that the name became corrupted from Duifespiek ("Dove's Peak") to Duiwelspiek ("Devil's Peak"). The English term Devil's Peak is a 19th century translation from the Dutch.
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leuk om te weten van de Devil, wist het niet
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