dallen,
i also say keep them coming.
seeing your photos has made this
saturday-night-in-tokyo-with-my-family-back-in-new-hampshire more
bearable.
btw, any pictures of the border straddling hardware store in norton,
vt.- ?, quebec.....or the shortest international bridge in the world. i
remember seeing this in a travel catalog years ago and only once since
then. it "spans" two of the one thousand islands in the st. lawrence
seaway. a person with long legs and a running leap might not need the
bridge. i have surfed the web trying to find it, to no avail.
before my plane left seattle, i asked the pilot where we crossed the
international date line. i was hoping that it was over little diomede,
alaska/big diomede, russia. unfortunately it was not.
regards,
bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Dallen Timothy [mailto:dtimothy@...]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:39 PM
To: 'BoundaryPoint@egroups.com'
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] and more pics
Oh, Ok, here's another bunch of photos (Vatican-Italy and Ghana-Togo)
before I head for home to do some 'real' work.
Photo 1) I took this two weeks ago. I have better ones, but they're
slides. Anyway, here's the Vatican-Italy border at St. Peter's Square.
The actual borderline is marked with white lines and marble pillars with
chains drooping between the pillars. These are visible in the picture.
The white and red barricades are simply there to keep oncoming traffic
from driving into the square. (By the way, the Pope lives in one of the
apartments in the big building that extends above the columns).
Photo 2) Is the main vehicular entry point into the Vatican. The
borderline here is marked by the east walls of the buildings and the
white pillars.
Photo 3) A secondary vehicular entry point into the Vatican. The border
is the old Roman wall.
Photo 4) This is another vehicular entry into the Vatican. The actual
border crosses the cobblestones just in front of the guard, along the
fence line. It then goes into the parking lot--the white dotted line is
the actual border. It goes along the side of the red building and
around it to head south back to the Roman wall. This picture was taken
facing West. While the white line marks the actual border, the Vatican
leases the parking lot and the adjacent buildings from Italy, so these
are effectively part of the Vatican City, although not part of its
sovereign space.
Photo 5) This is the Vatican-Italy border in a small nook (you can see
just below the Pope's apartment). The stone pillar marks the border,
and the gate is there so the country can be closed down if necessary.
You might be able to tell that the cobblestones are laid out differently
at the line where the gate is. Note--there is a Vatican post office
just inside the border at this point, hence all the people waiting in
line.
Photo 6) The Ghana-Togo border. The border is the fence across the
road. I took this picture in March 2001 standing in Togo looking into
Ghana. The border is a three-meter high fence, but it ends about 25
meters from the ocean just to the left of this picture. I'll send a
photo of that once it's take from the slides. Local traders walk freely
back and forth on the beach around the fence.
Cheers,
Dallen
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