No shirts please, they're Belgian...



Zeeman has a number of stores in the Netherlands, and one of them is in the area on the Dutch-Belgian border called Baarle-Nassau. You may have read about it in textbooks as an example of a complicated border as it runs down the middle of the street, and even through the middle of the store.

Could make a useful starter question at this time.

Original source: this BBC News article

Meanwhile, concrete blocks put up by the Belgian authorities to close the border with the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland have resulted in a conundrum for the inhabitants near the Dutch village of Philippine as well. The only asphalt road going to their homes takes them into Belgium.

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