Town in 2 countries.
In my last post, I spoke about Baarle and how number 2 is so important for it.
What if I tell you that boundaries between the two countries DO NOT divide the town with a straight line and instead zigzagged all through the town?? Through the roads, through pavements, and ….
Zigzagged white boundaries.
The result is that when you stroll around Baarle, you constantly pass in and out of the two nations ! And
Before I continue from here to write more about Baarle, here is a short video to give you a clue how interesting this tiny town is.
You can also see the embossed map of previous post in this video.
Continue to read how weird is this town.
P.S.– The video is shot by V
“Hi, why don’t you come over to Belgian side of the bar”. I overheard this sentence a few years back in a small town. Was the speaker joking? His tone was serious enough.
For quite sometime I have been trying to come up with a way to explain this weird town on this earth which I visited a few years back. It is something like ‘a child belonging to two mothers’. And none of them is a step mother.
Okay, let’s try.
Baarle.
It is a Dutch town in the Netherlands. But it is also a Dutch town in Belgium.
It is a Belgian town in Belgium and is also a Belgian town in the Netherlands.
I hope you are not confused as yet. 😀
Some more ?
Baarle-Hertog Vs Baarle-Nassau
Okay.
It is a piece of Belgian land completely encircled by Netherlands and vice versa.