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Frédéric JacobsonMastodon11h ago
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“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt
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Analysis Summary
Baarle-Nassau, a town on the Dutch-Belgian border with a famously fractured territory, has a swing that lets people cross the border dozens of times in minutes due to the way the municipalities' borders interweave. The town's irregular borders are a real geographic quirk, though the claim that this swing feature is new 'as of last month' is overstated—the town's border complexity has existed for centuries and is well-documented in travel writing.
Claims Analysis (2)
“By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back more than 40 times in one minute”
Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog is a real border enclave with complex territorial divisions. The swing claim is a plausible reference to the town's unusual geography.
“As of last month, you can do this anyway”
The swing and border feature exist, but the claim about timing ('as of last month') cannot be independently verified—the feature has existed for years.
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