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Have you ever stood in more than one country at a time??

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,968 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Did the Equator one when in Uganda.

    Crossed and recrossed the Uganda-DR Congo border on foot whilst doing a forest trek.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,161 ✭✭✭rednik


    The Iran/Iraq border in 1989 while serving with the UN.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    I once had one foot in England and another in Scotland, but I don't know if that counts.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Batsy


    Does walking into an embassy count?

    No. Because embassies aren't foreign soil.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    England / Ireland a few years ago. Was the one and only time I was up north.

    Northern Ireland is not part of England, it is part of the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭Fattes


    One half in Switzerland the other side in France.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Is that on the backroads between Leixlip and Dunboyne somewhere?

    Yes, I think it's somewhere north of Leixlip.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    I walked around this:

    http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jaakko.tunninen/raja3d.jpg

    The point where Norway, Sweden and Finland meet, but I didn't stop and stand anywhere.:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    England / Ireland a few years ago. Was the one and only time I was up north.

    I presume you mean Northern Ireland, which is not England!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    I have stood in the exact centre of The International Bridge between France and Spain, which is near Hendaya.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    During a southern expedition, I've had one foot and one hand over four separate points around the south pole.

    A penguin stole my wallet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    i_am_job wrote: »
    afterall eamon de valera was born on an american ship and he was regarded of being born on american soil so was granted citizenship
    What the fuck is this horse shit?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    I still have a foot somewhere in serbia.
    :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    antodeco wrote: »
    During a southern expedition, I've had one foot and one hand over four separate points around the south pole.

    A penguin stole my wallet.

    P.p.p.pickpocketed by a penguin. I'd say he was a real cool operator.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Do countries which no longer exist count ?

    Ive walked between East and West Berlin (without anyone shooting at me)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    England / Ireland a few years ago. Was the one and only time I was up north.
    Northern Ireland is not part of England, it is part of the UK.

    Maybe the poster was in the North of England and can walk on water ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    NI/ROI
    Lebanon/Israel
    Liberia/Sierra Leone
    Sitzerland/France
    Chad/Cameroon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,109 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,953 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Armenia-Georgia.
    Israel-Jordan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Quazzie wrote: »

    Quite a few places like that (with the possible exception of all that wierdness about exclaves). There's a couple of other towns bisected by the Dutch/German border and indeed several towns/villages/farms and even houses are bisected by the Irish border.

    Possibly an internet legend but seemingly theres a guy who lives on the Russian/Ukrainian border with an outside toilet who is supposed to bring his passport with him everytime he takes a dump.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Possibly an internet legend but seemingly theres a guy who lives on the Russian/Ukrainian border with an outside toilet who is supposed to bring his passport with him everytime he takes a dump.
    Sure, doesn't everyone do that anyway?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    Thailand and Malaysia
    .
    Nicaragua and Costa Rica


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Yep - one foot in Zambia, the other in Zimbabwe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    The one between Germany and the Netherlands a few times, just for shopping purposes, of course :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 730 ✭✭✭gosuckonalemon


    In Leticia, Colombia you can have a foot in both Colombia and Brazil or Colombia and Peru.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Yep, the viewing platform at the top shares a border with Germany and Austria.
    Was great watching the Alpine Crows attacking the paper planes we were throwing from the top :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭Broads.ie


    Tanzania and Kenya

    Uganda and Kenya

    Uganda and Rwanda

    Rwanda and Burundi

    Tanzania and Malawi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Italy and Switzerland

    Also Italy and Vatican City if that counts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,792 ✭✭✭Ded_Zebra


    yep, The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium on the Drielandenpunt :cool:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaalserberg


  • Registered Users Posts: 464 ✭✭rosskind


    Not really, no.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,429 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    In Leticia, Colombia you can have a foot in both Colombia and Brazil or Colombia and Peru.

    Brazil and Peru as well?

    Not countries I know but I see two places on the map of Ireland where three provinces meet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,033 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I think I did it when crossing from South Africa to Swaziland by car. It's not a remarkable thing to do, it's just that we're more used to flying, and the "border" is the grey area of the airport.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Germany austria Switzerland and italy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I did once. Won't make that mistake again. Got arrested and convicted for the same crime in BOTH countries!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    I was half way across O'Connell Bridge, one foot in the north side, when I realised I'd forgotten my passport.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I was in Switzerland and Italy at the same time during a ski holiday in Livigno.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    I stood with one foot in Donegal and one foot in Derry.

    Both of my feet were in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,109 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    deccurley wrote: »
    I stood with one foot in Donegal and one foot in Derry.

    Both of my feet were in Ireland.

    You must be pretty old so because its coming up on 100 years since that could be true ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Quazzie wrote: »
    You must be pretty old so because its coming up on 100 years since that could be true ;)

    :eek: Don't make me challenge you to a duel!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    I doubt anyone cares but walked by foot across the Bolivan border into Argentina and did they whole," I'm in Bolivia...I'm in Argentina....I'm in Bolivia....I'm in Argentina!" thing for a good 5 minutes. The locals must've thought I was a right spa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    • Germany-Poland
    • Germany-Czech Republik (OK, soI was actually sitting on a fence here, so only my ar$e was in the Czech Republic at the same time ;))
    • Germany-Holland
    • Germany-Denmark
    • Poland-Slowakia

    also stood in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea at the same time ;)


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