Our hotel — the Hranicni Zamecek, or "Little Border Chateau" — had also ended up in private hands.
They suggest that the country either thrives on war or has gone a little border crazy.
FORT KENT, Me. — The thermometer read 15, and night had fallen on this intrepid little border town in northernmost Maine.
And also how fragile that little border is between those without and those that have an abundance?
Melrose itself is the prettiest of the little Borders towns, with chic shops, cosy cafes and delis to mooch around.
Apart from a gas station, a dozen roadside vegetable stands and some dingy bars, there was little activity in the little border town.
The danger is that Ethiopia's beleaguered government could be tempted to ignite another nasty little border war with a neighbouring country in order to rally support back home.So it is essential that Mr Zenawi be reined in.
An elderly lady was weeding & watering a little border of geraniums in front of a gravel stone that bore the name & 2 dates of a man & the name, Margaret, & birth year, 1888, of his wife.
Here's how they found the experience.... Our weekday detox was on a Wednesday night, so I did some sewing: Diwali is coming up, so I needed to work on my sari, adding some little borders and adjusting it so it fits and flows properly.
In the 1990s, Eritrea clashed with Yemen over the Hanish Islands in the Red Sea; battled Sudan-backed rebels on its western frontier; and fought Ethiopia, the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa, over a little border town called Badme.
It's an apt message for this quiet little border area, which in the 18th and 19th centuries was a destination for runaway brides and grooms who were too young to tie the knot in their native England, but who found looser marriage laws just across the River Sark, in Scotland.
