31/12/2024
As we wrap up 2024, not only am I adding yet another country to my list, with Luxembourg🇱🇺 as my 48th visited, but I'm also adding my THIRD *triple* border of the year!
After Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina and then Brazil-Peru-Colombia, I've just visited the Luxembourg🇱🇺-Germany🇩🇪-France🇫🇷 border. You may have heard the name of the tiny village on this triple border already, because it's where a famous agreement was signed, appropriately (for a triple-border town), to connect different countries for the abolition of checks at borders.
This created the now famous 𝕊𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕟 𝕫𝕠𝕟𝕖!
It spans a vast amount of Europe (both EU and non-EU countries), and is actually expanding to add two NEW countries in just a few hours, with Bulgaria and Romania about to join. This will finally make a satisfying unbroken connection on the map all the way to Greece, where goods and people can flow smoothly.
In the 2nd photo, you can see a funny sign showing that France and Germany are super close. Technically, the sign is wrong since Germany isn't 1km away, as it's literally right across the bridge you can see in that photo, but it makes for a good selfie! It's also funny that the sign as a whole is in no particular language, since "France" is how you write it in French (not German), and "Deutschland" is how you write it in German (not French).
In the final photo, I'm standing right in front of the triple border point, which is in the middle of the river. You can just about make out a dam behind the peace pillar, which is in France, all of the photos having being taken in Luxembourg.
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