550/163.1
Netherlands - West Germany
Single Ticket Weener border - Leer
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Border Crossing No.
550/163.1 |
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| Date and time: | Thursday 20 July 1989, c11.40 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Esens |
| Vehicle: | Train (Groningen - Leer 10.50-12.06) |
| Ticket: |
Return Ticket The Hague CS - Weener border
Single Ticket Weener border - Leer |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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After I had worked like mad for months on my project, and the exhibition "1000 Destroyed Drawings" was finished, I decided to give myself some border crossings as a present. I biked to the station, took the train to Leer, just over the border in Germany, took German marks from the post office opposite the station and bought for 48 mark a ticket that gave me unlimited travel during three weeks in the northwestern part of Germany. I jumped in a train to Oldenburg, travelled to the small town of Esens, walked around in the centre of town for an hour, took a bus to a very similar place called Norden, bought some tea (that region is famous for its tea use and they sell it in kilos) and went back home. |
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Border Crossing No.
551/163.2 |
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| Date and time: | Thursday 20 July 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Esens to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Leer - Groningen 20.21-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Single Ticket Weener border - Groningen |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
552/164.1 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 22 July 1989, c13.30 |
| Crossing point: | Schoonebeek - Emlichheim |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Lingen |
| Vehicle: | Bike (Groningen - Lingen 7.00-16.50) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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From seven in the morning I sat on my bike. I rode from Groningen southward to Schoonebeek at the German border. I saw the oil-pumps of our national oil-field, about which I had learned already long ago at school. After crossing the border I saw more oil pumps, many more than I had seen on the Dutch side, but I was never taught that the Germans also had an important oil-field there. Of course geological patterns did not mind where people would put their borders. I realized why Dutchmen would have liked to annex that part of Germany, sticking out so dangerously into Holland, after the war and why they had not managed. |
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Border Crossing No.
553/164.2 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 22 July 1989, c19.30 |
| Crossing point: | Wymeer - Bellingwolde? |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Lingen to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Bike (Papenburg - Winschoten 18.30-20.15) |
| Ticket: | - |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
554/165.1 |
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| Date and time: | Monday 24 July 1989, c8.45 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Wildeshausen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Groningen - Leer 8.02-9.10) |
| Ticket: |
Single Ticket Groningen - Weener border
DB Tourenkarte |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
555/165.2 |
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| Date and time: | Monday 24 July 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Meppen to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Leer - Groningen 20.21-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Single Ticket Weener border - Groningen |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
556/166.1 |
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| Date and time: | Wednesday 26 July 1989, c11.40 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Wilhelmshaven |
| Vehicle: | Train (Zuidbroek - Leer 11.15-12.06) |
| Ticket: |
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans
DB Tourenkarte |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
557/166.2 |
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| Date and time: | Wednesday 26 July 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Wilhelmshaven to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Oldenburg - Groningen 19.35-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
558/167.1 |
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| Date and time: | Sunday 30 July 1989, c8.45 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Bremen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Groningen - Leer 8.02-9.10) |
| Ticket: |
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans
DB Tourenkarte |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
559/167.2 |
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| Date and time: | Sunday 30 July 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Bremen to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Oldenburg - Groningen 19.35-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
560/168.1 |
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| Date and time: | Tuesday 1 August 1989, c14.20 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Bunde |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Emden |
| Vehicle: | Bus (Nieuweschans - Leer 14.15-14.55) |
| Ticket: |
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans
DB Tourenkarte |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
561/168.2 |
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| Date and time: | Tuesday 1 August 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Emden to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Leer - Groningen 20.21-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
562/169.1 |
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| Date and time: | Wednesday 2 August 1989, c11.40 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Osnabrück |
| Vehicle: | Train (Groningen - Leer 10.50-12.06) |
| Ticket: |
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans
DB Tourenkarte |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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Border Crossing No.
563/169.2 |
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| Date and time: | Wednesday 2 August 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Osnabrück to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Leer - Groningen 20.21-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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Border Crossing No.
564/170.1 |
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| Date and time: | Tuesday 8 August 1989, c8.45 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Bremerhaven |
| Vehicle: | Train (Groningen - Leer 8.02-9.10) |
| Ticket: |
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans
DB Tourenkarte |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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Border Crossing No.
565/170.2 |
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| Date and time: | Tuesday 8 August 1989, c20.45 |
| Crossing point: | Weener - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Bremerhaven to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Leer - Groningen 20.21-21.30) |
| Ticket: |
DB Tourenkarte
Return Ticket Groningen - Nieuweschans |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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story to be written |
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