Visit three countries, while on your lunch break 
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Where three Nordic countries meet:
www.visit-lyngenfjord.com
World’s northernmost three-country cairn
The three-country cairn (Treriksrøysa) near Goldajavri in Storfjord marks the point where Norway, Sweden and Finland meet, which is 69° North and 490 m above sea level.
www.visit-lyngenfjord.com
On your spring jaunt to Benelux, visit here. There is a very large cafe too, so an excellent place for a quick pit stop. It does get rather busy.Where three Nordic countries meet:
World’s northernmost three-country cairn
The three-country cairn (Treriksrøysa) near Goldajavri in Storfjord marks the point where Norway, Sweden and Finland meet, which is 69° North and 490 m above sea level.
May of last year, wifey and I made it there on our way to flooded Cochem.
A Chinese tourist who took this picture decided to lob our feet off along with the rest of the tripoint marker.
When I went to Poland to visit the former Auschwitz camp in Oswiecim, the guide explained that his family even though living in the same area and houses, lived in 3 countries over their time there, this was because the border kept moving.
Sometimes the whole family lived in the same country, other times the borders moved and the family was split.
He was explaining that you would have a situation where one side of the family was better off being in another country and would smuggle food to the others, then the border would move again and the opposite would be true, such a bizarre situation.
He did name the place but I forget, he was talking about Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany as it would have been then. He did say the Germans was the culprits for all the changes.
Sometimes the whole family lived in the same country, other times the borders moved and the family was split.
He was explaining that you would have a situation where one side of the family was better off being in another country and would smuggle food to the others, then the border would move again and the opposite would be true, such a bizarre situation.
He did name the place but I forget, he was talking about Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany as it would have been then. He did say the Germans was the culprits for all the changes.
more likely pre WW1 when bits of Poland moved between the Austro-Hungarian, Russian and Prussian empires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland#Era_of_insurrections
There was indeed huge dislocation of the land borders between Germany, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, stretching back over centuries. If Putin had his way, there’d be a whole lot more, with severe consequences for us all. It’s also interesting (sort of) to see which ‘countries’ or ‘political areas’ sort of still exist, Transnistria being one. The same could of course be said of the Balkans as a whole. But we digress.
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