Things I've Learned Today.

[tony from suffolk]

According to the Camping and Caravanning Club's magazine, the Yorkshire caves were first explored by pioneering french caver Gouffre de Padirac in the 19th Century, and Diccan Pot leads, via a single pitch, into the side of the Alum Pot main shaft. I did not know these facts previously.

 

[cap n chris]

Gouffre's cousin (another Gouffre - popular name in that blood-line) had Gouffre de Berger named after him.

 

[graham]

Gouffre's cousin (another Gouffre - popular name in that blood-line) had Gouffre de Berger named after him.

S'funny, I always beklieved that one was named after the pioneer French Caver Jo Gouffre. 

 

[Peter Burgess]

Gouffre's cousin (another Gouffre - popular name in that blood-line) had Gouffre de Berger named after him.

I think his ancestors were French fast food chefs.

 

[bograt]

According to the Camping and Caravanning Club's magazine, the Yorkshire caves were first explored by pioneering french caver Gouffre de Padirac in the 19th Century, and Diccan Pot leads, via a single pitch, into the side of the Alum Pot main shaft. I did not know these facts previously.

I think I heard of a sibling called Nick Nack Padirac.