Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Llivia
Date: Dec 05, 2000 @ 02:25
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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>I have been to Baarle, Llivia, Gibraltar, Andorra, Point Roberts, San
>Marino, seen Asia from a US village, Africa from Europe-- but I have never
>been to an International tri-point.
>David
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>On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, michael donner wrote:
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>> you must be right david
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>> it was just too fantastical anyway
>> & mapquest & multimap also tend to confirm your view
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>> glad to know you have really been there too
>> m
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>> >On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, michael donner wrote:
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>> >> > Great to find border freaks online Maybe someone is interested in
>> >> >the link <<http://www.llivia.com> http://www.llivia.com>
>><http://www.llivia.com> http://www.llivia.com Jesper
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>> >> great freakin language they have there too
>> >> & nice map
>> >> right down to the tennis courts
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>> >The little picture on <<http://www.llivia.com/access.htm>
>>http://www.llivia.com/access.htm>
>> ><http://www.llivia.com/access.htm> http://www.llivia.com/access.htm
>>seems to confirm my
>> >recollection from my visit to Llivia, that there is quite a bit of
>> >farmland within Llivia, so I think the "Mapa de Carrera" is just of the
>> >urbanized part of Llivia, not the entire enclave.
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>> >Incidentally, they have a list of international "enclavanents" on
>> ><<http://www.llivia.com/situac.htm> http://www.llivia.com/situac.htm>
>><http://www.llivia.com/situac.htm> http://www.llivia.com/situac.htm and
>> >they (incorrectly) include Point
>> >Roberts as as US "within" ("dins") Canada.
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>> >So I don';t think the road up to the castle is a narrow strip of Spain
>> >with France in gray, I think it is just a road with rural Spanish enclave
>> >land in gray. In fact, on further reading, the page on nature,
>> ><<http://www.llivia.com/natura.htm,> http://www.llivia.com/natura.htm,>
>><http://www.llivia.com/natura.htm,> http://www.llivia.com/natura.htm,
>> >shows some hills (puig) and even a
>> >little mountain range (petita serra)
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>> >Just my opinion...
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>> >David
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>> >> it even looks like there may be a second order exclave in the gray area
>> >> but i cant be sure
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>> >> also dig those crazy proruptions
>> >> especially the umbilical cord up to the castell de llivia in the
>>northeast
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>> >> m