How to see your family when they live on the other side of a closed border

Cute!
Thank you for posting.

Here's a similar story on two elderly sweethearts in Denmark and Germany, who meet at the border every day. A wonderful story!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/europe/coronavirus-denmark-germany-border.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

MOLLEHUSVEJ BORDER CROSSING — She drives from the Danish side, in her Toyota Yaris.

He cycles from the German side, on his electric bike.

She brings the coffee and the table, he the chairs and the schnapps.

Then they sit down on either side of the border, a yard or two apart.

And that is how two octogenarian lovers have kept their romance alive despite the closure of the border that falls between his home in the very north of Germany and hers in the very south of Denmark.

Tear down the wall.

Great stories and photos!

At least the border guards in the linked stories allow them to set up their tables and hand chairs across or whatever else they need to do. Some countries, you know who you are, like to arrest people who accidentally step over to the other side while out for a jog.

Mark are you talking about the young female jogger who accidentally ran over the US border in a beach and was detained for two weeks , in her shorts and T-shirt lol

Pat, exactly. Not a good image for the US border patrol. But maybe that is the image they want to project.

Well I understand needing to be careful but that whole debacle actually made them come off stupid not brave and strong lol

It’s sad as remember when our borders were far more open - we could pop over with no passport - now it’s like both sides have gone a bit nuts - guess it’s a sign of thr times

Some examples of 'cross country' visits at Washington-British Columbia border

https://fox11online.com/news/coronavirus/when-social-distancing-is-6-feet-of-space-and-an-international-border

https://crosscut.com/2020/04/border-closure-separates-families-between-washington-and-canada

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/families-meet-along-0-avenue-to-connect-across-the-border-1.4904645

Meanwhile my brother-in-law in Turin is so clueless that he was shocked when we said we couldn’t come from France when my husband’s and his father passed . . . I wanted to scream dude, you can’t even go into Lombardy from Piedmont — they’re certainly not letting us in from France!!!.

He said he hadn’t needed to know information about international borders so why should he have known. I mean, was he not aware that things have been a little out of the ordinary on a lot of fronts these past two months here !!!!??!

It boggles the mind how anyone living through this here could be so unaware.

And now the news is reporting this morning that Italy will re-open its borders to other EU citizens and residents on June 3 without quarantine requirement. That will be our first opportunity to visit our family on the other side of the border since my father-in-law passed on April 28.

Kim, Fox News must be available in Turin.

Kim, I am so sorry and sad for your husband - for families losing loved ones during this time and not being able to see them. It is heart-breaking.