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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Sint Marteen / Saint Martin

There are plenty of interesting islands in the Caribbean but one of the most special ones is Sint Marteen / Saint Martin. As most others, it is a very small island. In contrast to all others (except Hispaniola which is very big), it consists of two countries, France (Saint Martin) in the north and Netherlands (Sint Marteen) in the south. Not only two different countries on a 20 by 20 km island but obviously different languages and currencies. The best is that they even have different electrical grids, 250V / 50Hz and 110V / 60 Hz... At least there are no border controls (and were no long before Schengen)

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