A friend of mine sent this photo, supposedly of the border between Belgium and the Netherlands in a cafe:
By the way,, I notice that you (Christ L) often sign your name as chr.
How would you prefer us to type your name, our Belgian friend?
Brad,
must be Baarle, a small village in the Netherlands, 15 km from the border with Belgium.
The village is part Belgium (Baarle-Hertog) and the other part from the Netherlands (Baarle Nassau). The Belgium part is an exlclave, it's a welknown place and for this reason pretty touristic.
It is told the police is only valid in their country, so it's a good place to get drunk. When the Belgian cops arrive you move to netherlanths and vice versa.
chr.
> Brad,
> must be Baarle, a small village in the Netherlands, 15 km from the border with Belgium.
> The village is part Belgium (Baarle-Hertog) and the other part from the Netherlands (Baarle Nassau). The Belgium part is an exlclave, it's a welknown place and for this reason pretty touristic.
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> It is told the police is only valid in their country, so it's a good place to get drunk. When the Belgian cops arrive you move to netherlanths and vice versa.
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> chr.
How can it be both on the border and 15 km from the border?
Sounds like metaphysics to me.;-)
Edit:
I actually found an answer:
Belgium/Netherlands — The town of Baarle (51°26?N 4°56?E) in the southern Netherlands is made up of the municipality of Baarle-Hertog, a group of 22 Belgian enclaves within the Netherlands; and of the Dutch municipality of Baarle-Nassau, which itself has one enclave in the main body of Belgium and 7 counter-enclaves inside two of the Belgian enclaves.
Of course the source is Wikipedia and is subject to correction.
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> How can it be both on the border and 15 km from the border?
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Humor aside, it sounds a bit like how an embassy would be... sort of.
Carl
