I’m glad to announce an update of my main website www.grpdesbf.nl. Main subject: the discovery of the lost submarkers 408 III and IV and the newly established borderline (2015) between bm408 and 409. See for the update-details the update-log.
Bm602 can’t be reached by foot. This very last bordercross is hidden in a cave at the Mediterranean coast between Portbou and Cerbère. In 2011 we rented a boat with a boatsman to get there and Serge Poncet peddled with a canoe from Cerbère while the mountaineer Lionel Daudet descended along the steep rockwall to the […]
On June 2th 2018, I – with my companion Jan-Willem Doomen – met Oier Gil and his girlfriend Judith Sanchez at bm196 near Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. We had a very interesting conversation about our mutual border experiences. Oier (second from left) is an artist and originates from Irun along the Bidasoa-river which is the border with France in […]
Marco Noris – an artist from Barcelona – impressed me very much last year with his project of walking along the esfr-border from Andorra to the Mediterranean and making small paintings and drawings of almost every bordermarker. See this post and this webpage for more information on this project and his first exhibition in La Jonquera. […]
Today I was proud – together with Jan-Willem Doomen – to be witness of the discovery of these lost intermediate markers. Michel Molia has been intrigued by the fate of these missing markers (see this page) and visited this remote mountain slope many times. Four intermediate markers were placed in 1969 after a shift of […]
I’m glad to announce a new update of my website. What’s new (main changes): – added the 15 daytrips from july/december 2017. Start on this page – special 1: final (?) search with Charles Darrieu, Michel Molia and Henny Claassen for the 408-submarkers 408 III and IV – special 2: visiting Marco Noris’ exibition in La Jonquera – special 3: […]
Jerry Whitmarsh – a Pyrenees-mountainwalker by heart- recently asked me if one could walk around Andorra along its borderline. He did the HRP in 2015 and found that Andorra had “the potential for some interesting walks”. If I could help him? Well let’s try. To start: there is already a circular walk in Andorra – […]
The previous post suggested that the official delimitation of the French-Andorran border would lead to the installment and engraving of bordermarkers from the eastern to the western tripoint. I already dreamed of new mountain trips along the ADFR-borderline. But Jean-Paul Laborie – border commissioner for France – wrote me that those new bordermarkers will only […]
I was very surprised by this very interesting article which tells us that in spring 2018 bordermarkers will be placed between Andorra and France. And that means the first bordermarkers ever between both countries. Their border was never officially delimitated. On my own webpage on the tripoints of Andorra you can read: “The Andorran constitution (1993) states […]
Don’t miss it (I won’t): the wonderful exhibition of Marco Noris in the MuMe-museum in La Jonquera, 40km south of Perpignan. This Museu Memorial de l’Exili is a museum on the refugees who fled Spain after the civil war. Marco has walked along the ESFR-border from Andorra to the Mediterranean in 25 days, visiting almost […]