Bien di Boundary Point Amitgs ed Amitgas

I have just returned from a month-long holiday in Switzerland where
I sequestered myself in a Graubünden valley, enrolled in an
intensive course in the Romansch language (Sursilvan idiom). After
the course I had a few days off and I did some boundary hunting of
my own.

The first trip I took was to the southwestern point of
Liechtenstein, where its border with Switzerland resembles that of a
needle-like point. I had purchased a tabletop-sized map of
Liechtenstein and was intrigued by this needle appendage that seemed
to poke Switzerland like a flu shot. The needle looked no wider than
a road, and I endeavoured to find the boundary markers with
Switzerland.

Sure enough, this part of Liechtenstein was no wider than a one-lane
road, with the Rhine on one side and the boundary stones on the
other. I did find stones numbers 2 and 5, marked "L" on one side
and "S" on the other, and took photos. I also couldn't resist
climbing on top of stone 2 and placing each foot on opposite sides
of the chiselled red dividing line. (I feel like an initiated member
of BoundaryPoint now.)

I could not find the boundary stone number 1, and I even crawled
through the forested cliff between the road and the river looking
for it. Since I had found a stone number 2, did that mean (always)
that there is a stone number 1? Would that one be nearer the Rhine
riverbank (or, in the river itself)?

My next excursion was to Büsingen, where I followed the western
border and part of the northern border with Switzerland. During the
entire way I took photos of each and every boundary stone marker. I
even asked three people what country they lived in, since their
houses were snug up to the border, or, in one case, their property
was divided by it. I have photos of an internationally-bisected
driveway.

I would like to ask the members of this group if Büsingen really
qualifies as an enclave (exclave) since it is accessible via the
Rhine from the German bit of territory stuck between the two parts
of Schaffhausen canton. I bought an enormous map of Schaffhausen
canton and the international border here cuts the Rhine in half. One
could go south to the German town of Gailingen, get in a boat and
paddle westward to Büsingen. If one kept to the north shore of the
Rhine the whole time, would one have ever left German territory? Or
is this map wrong, and are both sides of the Rhine entirely Swiss
territory between the parts of Schaffhausen canton that separate
Büsingen from Gailingen?

Craig Rowland
Mississauga, Ontario