Comments on: 11 Most Bizarre Border Crossings Around The World http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-bizarre-border-crossings/10343 for environmentalists who don't take themselves too seriously Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:55:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mosh http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-bizarre-border-crossings/10343/comment-page-1#comment-244196 Mosh Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:53:50 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=10343#comment-244196 There's a hotel on the Swiss/French border (l’Hotel Franco-Suisse) which has beds arranged so that your upper body is in one country and your lower body in the other. The bar is similarly split down the middle. Airmen used to use it to escape from France into neutral Switzerland during the war. I met one guy who's grandfather did just that: More details and a photo here: http://www.moshtour.me.uk/2007/08/more-border-hopping/ There’s a hotel on the Swiss/French border (l’Hotel Franco-Suisse) which has beds arranged so that your upper body is in one country and your lower body in the other. The bar is similarly split down the middle.

Airmen used to use it to escape from France into neutral Switzerland during the war. I met one guy who’s grandfather did just that:

More details and a photo here: http://www.moshtour.me.uk/2007/08/more-border-hopping/

]]> By: Introspective http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-bizarre-border-crossings/10343/comment-page-1#comment-227785 Introspective Tue, 19 May 2009 22:04:21 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=10343#comment-227785 Swiss-Italian border crossing is amazing, above the clouds. I wander who will go on the top of the mountain to pass the border. I guess that there are some more convenient crossings. Swiss-Italian border crossing is amazing, above the clouds. I wander who will go on the top of the mountain to pass the border. I guess that there are some more convenient crossings.

]]> By: Thales http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-bizarre-border-crossings/10343/comment-page-1#comment-214912 Thales Tue, 05 May 2009 15:39:55 +0000 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/?p=10343#comment-214912 Missed the other weird Belgian border: the abandoned Belgian railway that crosses Germany, a strip of a few meters wide which is Belgian territory, crossing some German villages. See http://borderhunting.blogspot.com/2007/07/vennbahn-roetgen.html or http://borderhunting.blogspot.com/2007/07/vennbahn-lammersdorf.html Missed the other weird Belgian border: the abandoned Belgian railway that crosses Germany, a strip of a few meters wide which is Belgian territory, crossing some German villages.

See http://borderhunting.blogspot.com/2007/07/vennbahn-roetgen.html or http://borderhunting.blogspot.com/2007/07/vennbahn-lammersdorf.html

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