His journey, as detailed by the satnav, traced what experts believe is a well-worn route for weapons traffickers: Montenegro, through Croatia, Slovenia and on into Austria to a border crossing point into southern Germany near Rosenheim.
To get there from the coast, I took a shuttle bus, where a young Greek Cypriot was negotiating with the driver, a Turk from the mainland, to take her to a border crossing not on his route.
FOR most neighbouring countries, an agreement on the use of a shared waterway, some big cross-border investments or talks on remodelling a border crossing would be workaday, technical issues.
Mr. Wu was detained on April 8 at a border crossing between Hong Kong and the mainland.
The seizure of 56 pounds of heroin on June 6 at a border crossing between Greece and Albania also caught his attention.
Once more Alice found herself on a train at a border crossing, this time between Czechoslovakia and West Germany.
Khaled El-Masri, a German national, was seized by Macedonian security officers on 31 December 2003, at a border crossing, because he had been mistaken for an al-Qaida suspect.
It has left Abkhazia's economy highly dependent on Russia, which maintains a border crossing and railway line to Sukhumi.
To help make their case, they point to spot checks like the one just today on a Palestinian truck at a border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
But it presented another challenge to Israel's oft-stated desire to stay on the sidelines of a conflict on its northern doorstep, in which al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front rebels took over a border crossing on the Golan last month.
