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JulietJFall<p>This stretch of our long ongoing border walk saw us traipsing along paths, mostly on the Swiss side, and sometimes crossing muddy fields, digging in brambles looking for border stones and wandering in unexpected stretches of mossy woods as we traced our way along the 🇨🇭🇫🇷border. This was an old section of the border of what was the Mandement de Jussy, belonging to the city of Geneva before the canton was made into one contiguous unit in 1815. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BorderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fronti%C3%A8res" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontières</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mosstodon</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>My, my, guess what we’ve been doing today for a blissfully sunny &amp; warm Boxing Day? Unseasonably warm, but just perfect for hopping across and along the 🇨🇭🇫🇷 border, this time near Jussy. Four hours to walk from border stones 120 to 155, and back to the starting point, with two extra bonus old ones incongruously moved from elsewhere &amp; reused rather oddly to mark the entrance to a property. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BorderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>We ended up in Thônex, just after a beautiful borderstone showing the Sardaigne/Savoie arms, and the Geneva key &amp; eagle. Home for tea! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/douane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>douane</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/th%C3%B4nex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thônex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>border</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderstone</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>Term-time is ended, the archives are closed, and we are back outside celebrating the beginning of the holidays by walking! Walking the wiggly borderlines along the Foron river, where the border is unusually not in the middle of the stream but along the right (Swiss) bank. France has full rights over the water. Interestingly, 🇨🇭and 🇫🇷 haven’t formally agreed on the exact location of the border here and discussions are ongoing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borderwalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borderwalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fronti%C3%A8res" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontières</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualMethods</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>We wandered on along a charming path in the evening sun, enjoying the usual mix of contrasting landscapes on either side of the line: small villas on the Swiss side &amp; rather charmless apartment blocks in France. I love spotting the immediately-recognizable former border posts, often now converted, built in the 1920s &amp; mostly designed by Marc Camoletti: the architect who built the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fronti%C3%A8res" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frontières</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/douane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>douane</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualEthnography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualEthnography</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>Sunday morning wandering and cycling around between past and present, in slight drizzle, chasing border stones &amp; French boulangeries. </p><p>In case you missed it, a short comic stemming from this walking &amp; drawing border project is mentioned here: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@JulietJFall/111427226794927481" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@JulietJFall/1</span><span class="invisible">11427226794927481</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BorderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politicalGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalGeography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VisualMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VisualMethods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borderstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borderstudies</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>A walk of contrasts today, with many brambles, some light trespassing into a gravel quarry, pretty countryside and industrial stretches between Bardonnex &amp; Croix-de-Rozon. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderWalk</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>Anyone care to sponsor me to buy this abandoned border post? This would be my dream drawing studio for finishing my border comic! Maybe I need a fundraising project here (or a bestseller!)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/walkingEthnography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>walkingEthnography</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicFunding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prettyPlease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prettyPlease</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>It’s surprising to me how many border stones are carved erroneously. It’s almost embarrassing — but perfectly delightful too! — how much time and money must have been invested to lay this one with an S (for 🇫🇷 Savoie) carved backwards (🇨🇭was G for Geneva on that one). Or maybe it was done on purpose as a subtle insult? <br>(One advantage of my mini-border-crossing adventures is that I get to visit French boulangeries. For research purposes, obviously.)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BorderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/visualMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualMethods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a></p>
JulietJFall<p>Back to border-hopping after a long summer of heat and travel further afield. Yay for restarting mini-adventures close by, hopping back and forth in time with many archival photos stored on my phone! We haven’t walked all the way round the Canton of Geneva yet: endless little treasures to find, and new places to explore. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/borderWalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderWalk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/walkingMethodologies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>walkingMethodologies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geneve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geneve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/swissBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swissBorder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrenchBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchBorder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
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