SPANISH FRAGMENT
Despite the trouble in the rest of Spain, so far all has been quiet on the Llivia front. Llivia is a misplaced strip of Spain which lies tilted up into the high valleys on the French side of the eastern Pyrenees and is entirely surrounded by France. It*is a little to the east of Andorra and not far from the French town of Bourg Madame, where the railway from Perpignan crosses the Pyrenees into Spam. There is about one square mile of Llivia. It has one road and one town, also called Llivia. All its shop signs are in Spanish' and everybody talks Spanish. You enter it from France, and can drive across "it in ten minutes, and you leave it to re-enter Franca But entering and leaving is a complicated business. The Spanish Customs insists on puzzling through all your papers and unpacking all your baggage, both coming in and going out. As son as you are finished with. the Spanish you have to do it all over agahvfor the French Customs. (
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Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 6
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175SPANISH FRAGMENT Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 6
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