Magda and her visiting friend, Ola, are wandering around Venice today. Getting there from here is a quick and easy thing; the hardest part is the ten-minute drive to the train station in Gorizia, our twin city *across the border*, I had thought, where trains leave for Venice every 45 seconds or so. Finding our way around in Gorizia is something that always baffles us, so we thought maybe Google Earth could help Magda with the navigating. When we called it up, however, we were shocked to learn that Italy has once again deprived Slovenia of the administrative center of the Primorska province.
It was bad enough when Churchill, Truman, and Stalin screwed Yugoslavia out of Gorizia and the bustling port of Trieste in 1947. Now this. Thanks for nothing, Google.
Though it’s certainly not the first time a map got something wrong.
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May 27th, 2006 at 14.45 CEST+2.00
So, is the borderline wrong, or did they just stick the Nova Gorica centre on the wrong side of it?
May 27th, 2006 at 22.34 CEST+2.00
Without breaking out the theodolite, I would guess the latter, and the lesser, of those two cartographical sins, Loxias.