After a gap in looking at my website, this month the focus has been on my 2021 trip to the Denmark/German border with fellow members of the International Border Research Group. A secondary focus was working on the architecture of the website with new country and other border information pages Please click on the links within the text for individual reports or the images below.

New Pages

1. Embassies and Consulates in Copenhagen. A stroll around the city and observing the diplomatic buildings I came across. Details here.
2. Design, research and publishing of the IBRG report DEDK21 an overview of the 3 day trip to the historical and current borders between Denmark and Germany. Details here.
3. Report of the visit to Danevirke which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is an ancient frontier earthwork of ramparts and ditches built by the Danes across the neck of Jutland in order to block Frankish expansion into the area. Details here
4. Report of the visit to the historic border at Hejlsminde. Details here
5. Design, research and publishing of the Bulgaria country page. Details here.
6. Design, research and publishing of the Serbia country page. Details here.
7. Design, research and publishing of the North Macedonia country page. Details here.
8. Report of the visit to the historic border at Christiansfeld, with border monuments, an old border inn and a border focused museum. Details here.
9. A visit to the small rural Ubjerg Church that found itself on the wrong side of the new 1920 border despite the vast majority of the local population opting to stay in Germany. The border was drawn 2km to the south. Details here.
10. A visit to border marker #67 – at the southernmost point on mainland Denmark. The anti wild boar fence won! Details here.
11. Report of the visit to the Sofiedal/ Fehle Border Crossing. Details here.

Updated Pages

The following pages were updated:

1. Major updating of the International Border Research Group home page which has now moved to this website. Details here.
2. Updating of the Denmark Country page with links to new reports. Details here.
3. Updating of the Germany Country page with links to new reports. Details here.
4. Updating of Historical Borders page, new photos and links details here
5. A major updating of the Oddities and Extremities page with new photos and links. Details here.
6. Updating of Turkey Country page with new photos and links. Details here.