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Lessons learned from Berlin Wall: Borders exclude. Borders do not protect. Borders just reveal helplessness. Borders stir up hatred.
Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Tweedmouth in Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed railway viaduct built between 1847 and 1850, when it was opened by Queen Victoria. The engineer who designed it was Robert Stephenson (son of George Stephenson). It was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway and is still in regular use today, as part of the East Coast Main Line.
The bridge is 659 metres long. It has 28 arches, constructed of brick but aesthetically faced with stone. The bridge is 38 metres above the river itself. In the 1990s it underwent significant repair work for the first time, in a Railtrack project with some funding from English Heritage.
.. although the 'ball' is actually Elk. Paddy finding much more fun chasing an animate (in many senses) objects rather than ones that don't growl back at you!
Mist looking quite 'chilled' out and not from the cold! .. as we sheltered in the lee of the shelter wall at Nan Beild, Chris Firth sitting on the right (comment below!)
Which way do I go? This is the quaint cafe inside the old Wallangarra Railway Station on the border between New South Wales and Queensland. It's one of those places where you can browse for ages at the stuff contained within its large interior and indeed exterior.
But there is a COVID conundrum if you were there now. The state border runs across the platform, luckily not down the middle and there are two border points nearby. The cafe is in Queensland. Queenslanders have been asked not to go to NSW as the COVID outbreak there continues to escalate, even into northern NSW regional towns which together with Sydney are now in lockdown. You need a pass to get back into Queensland if you stray across the border. Even a border bubble pass. SE Queenslanders are not supposed to be in Wallangarra anyway this week and next as part of the extended restrictions after our lockdown eased...do not go into regional Queensland. This has so far caused us to rejig and rebook our holiday twice already. (We were supposed to be in either Mt. Morgan or Townsville tonight, census night too according to whichever plan, A or B you choose, but both have been discarded). We are still at home! People from NSW are not supposed to go to Queensland and bring back our latest problem into northern NSW as I understand it. So there is quite an impasse at the border. What can I say, we live in strange times.
Wallangarra, Queensland mostly!
This is one of the remotest and most isolated farms I can remember visiting. It's so close to the US border that my cell phone started picking up cell towers in North Dakota. The house's windows still look out onto the great emptiness of the border country.
Near (sort of) Gladmar, Saskatchewan
July 2018
Our Daily Challenge ~ Edge or Border
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... this Black & White Border Collie is a working dog, herding sheep and other livestock on a farm. The breed evolved from dogs used to herd livestock on the Scotland-England border.
South of Inverness; July 2005