Dear Mike,
thanks for your comments on the actual state of member
visits to tripoints - you're right about things rather going
slowly at this time - b u t : I think we're all saving energy
for next year's GCEBE - aren't you...?!?
A lot of (new) tp's, boundary markers - and fun...!
All the best
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: michael donner <m@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: New great border site
> thank you again bernd
> & please understand i was just making fun of our american lingo
> which does indeed often say dutch for deutsche
>
>
> congrats also on being only our third member to report visiting any tri
> country point whatsoever
>
> which is perhaps also comical
> in view of our ambitious introductory blurb
> but true i think
>
> by my unofficial & probably incomplete count you are tied with brendan for
> silver at 1 tripoint each
> while peter is still solidly golden with a total of 9
> tho i believe he has reported on only 5 or 6 so far
>
> i mean collectively we may only have some 11 total visits to as few as 9
> points in all
>
> we are still anticipating word of other tripoints visited by peter or others
> & are earnestly hoping new members will also chime in about any other such
> points as they may have visited
>
>
> curiously all 3 of you who have reported any visit at all have chanced on
> the very same point
> bedenl near aachen
> the odds against which coincidence are over 300 to 1
>
>
> also our collective collection has remained stalled for some time at 6
> known points visited or at least viewed at close range
> bedenl
> bedelu
> chdefr
> atchde
> athusk
> arbrpa
> if i am not mistaken
> plus probably 3 others still unnamed
>
> so if you do happen to pass thru befrlu &or defrlu in southern luxemburg en
> route to basle
> you will probably be discovering & laying claim for us to virgin territory
> so far as i know
>
>
> & if you are able to reach the actual chdefr point in the middle of the
> rhine river very near the tri country monument in basle
> you will be the first to do so & will win a special award for attaining
> this elusive & challenging objective
>
>
> with best wishes
> m
>
>
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >and yes, correct: There are two towns in Germany with the same name
> >Frankfurt:
> >
> >One is in central Germany called Frankfurt on the Maine river where
> >all the big German banks have their headquartes, and the other one in
> >the East in Brandenburg county: Frankfurt on the Oder. (=90.000
> >inhabitants)
> >
> >Admittedly Frankfurt on the oder always sort of is in the shadow of
> >its big name brother.
> >
> >But no, I was serious: in fact the GERMAN-Polish border pages
> >(forgive my writing mistake 'Dutch-Polish') have been uploaded this
> >morning and the links have been fixed, so you can have a look at the
> >unknown Frankfurt on the oder now.
> >
> >Actually I have only seen one tripoint in my life: that's the Dutch-
> >German-Belgian border naar Aachen/Vaals.
> >
> >The Basle/Switzerland story has been delayed to 2001, but new
> >pictures of the Dutch-Belgian border are on its way.
> >
> >best regards
> >Bernd
> >
> >--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
> >> ah so you must be somewhere around rotterdam
> >> excellent
> >>
> >> i just doubled back to your strange & wonderful site while trying
> >to zero
> >> in further on your whereabouts
> >> & what a pleasant surprise to find you have anglicized it all now
> >too
> >>
> >> but are you really headed for basle next month
> >> or is that only in my imagination
> >>
> >> also i gathered from your delu & befr boundary pix that you may
> >also know
> >> something about the defrlu tri country point if not also the befrlu
> >>
> >> we have enjoyed first hand accounts of visits to the bedelu &
> >bedenl points
> >> but the southern benelux tripoints are still terra incognita to us
> >> & these might be only a day trip for you
> >> or lunch stops on the way to & fro basle
> >>
> >> on a lighter note
> >> i confess i initially thought you were just polish joking around
> >here below
> >> & in your ref to the dutch polish boundary near frankfurt
> >> especially with the broken links
> >> until i realized you have not one but a couple of frankfurts there
> >& double
> >> dutch too just like we have in pennsylvania
> >>
> >> happily american jokes have now displaced polish dutch & all others
> >tho
> >>
> >> m
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Hello,
> >> >
> >> >the 'good thing' about Holland and Belgium is that those countries
> >> >are rather small, even for European standard.
> >> >
> >> >I'm in Southern Holland Province, 20 miles from the North Sea.
> >> >
> >> >I need 40 minutes by car to reach the Belgian border, 1h 10 minutes
> >> >to reach German territory and 2,5 hours to reach French border.
> >> >
> >> >To reach the Polish border is more difficult distance-wise.
> >> >
> >> >regards
> >> >Bernd
> >> >
> >> >--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, michael donner <m@d...> wrote:
> >> >> welcome bernd
> >> >>
> >> >> glad you share our interest too
> >> >>
> >> >> & funny how we all seem to be concentrating on the belgian dutch
> >> >german
> >> >> tripoint
> >> >>
> >> >> about how far from there are you
> >> >>
> >> >> m
> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Hello,
> >> >> >
> >> >> >I'm the maker of this Border site that features views of the
> >Dutch-
> >> >> >German (and Belgian border)
> >> >> >
> >> >> >As it shows views of the border of Holland, Germany and
> >Belgium, I
> >> >> >made it in Dutch and German language. I had no idea that there
> >are
> >> >> >people overseas who share that same interest, and might be
> >> >interested
> >> >> >in visiting the site. I was wrong here.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Bernd
> >> >
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