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. […]
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 […]
I was surprised to read about the project of the artist Marco Noris from Barcelona: walking along the bordermarkers from Andorra to the Mediterranean and making a painting for each and every bordermarker. In fact it has already been accomplished on 11 september 2017 after a journey of 25 days, according to his detailed planning. […]
I just finished a 6-days backpacking expedition from Guzet-Neige to Latour-Carol. Main goal: a reconnaissance of my intended GRPdesBf-route through Andorra. It was quite tough with very strong gales up on the mountains in the last few days. This picture: at bordermarker 427 (eastern tripoint of Andorra) with me touching the stone.
I have watched the documentary “Mon Pays, c’est la frontière” by Anne Fontaneau and Alexandre Gary (see previous post) several times with a lot of pleasure. It’s easy to download it using the Captvty-program. There are 6 storylines nicely intertwined and some of them result in some sort of climax or anticlimax. These stories are: […]
Bm602 – the last bordermarker – is hidden in a cave at the mediterranean coast and can only be visited by boat. On 21 may 2011 we hired a boat & sailor to get there and I know that Charles & Josette Darrieu did the same. I was surprised to learn from Serge Poncet that […]