566/171.1
Netherlands - West Germany
Return Ticket Venlo border - Köln
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Border Crossing No.
566/171.1 |
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| Date and time: | Friday 12 January 1990, c10.15 |
| Crossing point: | Venlo - Kaldenkirchen |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Köln |
| Vehicle: | Train (Eindhoven - Köln 9.36-11.32) |
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Benelux ticket
Return Ticket Venlo border - Köln |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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Border Crossing No.
567/171.2 |
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| Date and time: | Friday 12 January 1990, c18.15 |
| Crossing point: | Kaldenkirchen - Venlo |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Köln to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Köln - Eindhoven 17.12-19.05) |
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Return Ticket Venlo border - Köln
Benelux ticket |
| In the company of: | Alone |
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Border Crossing No.
568/172.1 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 3 February 1990, c8.45 |
| Crossing point: | Nieuweschans - Weener |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Emden |
| Vehicle: | Train (Groningen - Leer 8.02-9.10) |
| Ticket: | Return Ticket Groningen - Emden |
| In the company of: | Vronie |
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Border Crossing No.
569/172.2 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 3 February 1990, c16.10 |
| Crossing point: | Bunde - Nieuweschans |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Emden to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Bus (Leer - Nieuweschans 15.30-16.12) |
| Ticket: | Return Ticket Groningen - Emden |
| In the company of: | Vronie |
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Border Crossing No.
570/173.1 |
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| Date and time: | Sunday 15 July 1990, c15.40 |
| Crossing point: | Maastricht - Visé |
| Passport check at: | No check |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Spa |
| Vehicle: | Train (Amsterdam - Liège 12.45-15.52) |
| Ticket: | Benelux ticket |
| In the company of: | Joke |
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Border Crossing No.
571/173.2 |
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| Date and time: | Friday 20 July 1990, c12.30 |
| Crossing point: | Gouvy - Troisvierges |
| Passport check at: | No check |
| Travelling: | from Spa to Luxembourg |
| Vehicle: | Train (TroisPonts - Luxemburg 12.00-13.51) |
| Ticket: | Benelux ticket |
| In the company of: | Joke |
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Border Crossing No.
572/173.3 |
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| Date and time: | Friday 20 July 1990, c17.15 |
| Crossing point: | Luxembourg - Arlon |
| Passport check at: | No check |
| Travelling: | from Luxembourg to Namur |
| Vehicle: | Train (Luxemburg - Namur 16.59-18.37) |
| Ticket: | Benelux ticket |
| In the company of: | Joke |
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Border Crossing No.
573/173.4 |
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| Date and time: | Sunday 22 July 1990, c13.05 |
| Crossing point: | Visé - Maastricht |
| Passport check at: | No check |
| Travelling: | from Spa to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Train (Liège - Maastricht 12.47-13.17) |
| Ticket: | Benelux ticket |
| In the company of: | Joke |
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Border Crossing No.
574/174.1 |
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| Date and time: | Wednesday 21 November 1990, 14.50-19.30 |
| Crossing point: | Amsterdam - Leningrad (air) |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Groningen to Moscow |
| Vehicle: | Plane (Amsterdam - Leningrad 14.50-19.30) |
| Ticket: | Return Ticket Groningen-Leningrad / Moscow-Groningen |
| In the company of: | Group |
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I wanted to see the Lissitzky-exhibition in Moscow and to meet the curators there. The only way to be there in time was booking a group tour to Leningrad, leave the group and travel illegally on my own to Moscow. A friend called friends in Moscow, who were willing to host me. The iron curtain had rusted even more than the Russian airplane and so it was filled with Russians. Not knowing their custom of sitting down where they wanted, I did not get my window place and had to sit down at the aisle between a group of Russian weight-lifters and their wives. In Leningrad our Russian guide Vika, a young girl, told me to came to the hotel, to check in, get a stamp on my visum and to change money with the waiters, as was common use in the Soviet Union. Vika brought me to the station in a bus full of elderly Germans and showed me the statue of Lenin where I had to wait for other friends, a Russian guy with his Dutch girlfriend, who were also travelling that night and would help me to get a place in the train. The guy went along the train and asked any conductor standing outside in the freezing cold for a place. Most nodded "no". Only after long negotiations with the conductor of the foremost car he managed to get me a bed for 40 roubles, half the price of a simple art magazine. He gave me a note which I should exchange at the head guard in car number 12 for a ticket. I should speak only Russian. Only long after departure I got the ticket and walked through the heated cars to the fore, crossing eleven icy-cold unlighted connection points. Now and than I asked in my best Russian where I was. I got an excellent bed and next morning I woke up by the repeated tones of a Russian radio station before its real broadcasts. The river Neva in Leningrad had been frozen over that night. |
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Border Crossing No.
575/174.2 |
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| Date and time: | Saturday 1 December 1990, 19.50-21.15 |
| Crossing point: | Moscow - Amsterdam (air) |
| Passport check at: | ... |
| Travelling: | from Moscow to Groningen |
| Vehicle: | Plane (Moscow - Amsterdam 19.50-21.15) |
| Ticket: | Return Ticket Groningen-Leningrad / Moscow-Groningen |
| In the company of: | Group |
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In the plane back to Holland I had to drink wodka, because somebody of our group had told a Russian woman that I had turned 40 the day before. When I told about my work on Lissitzky and his exhibition in Moscow she got very enthusiastic and called her husband, who was an architect. When landing I invited him next to me and we exchanged addresses. |
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