ABSTRACT
Reflecting life and journeys along the Portuguese-Spanish borderlands, this is a chapter of detours and departures. It is a collection of fragments of the border - thoughts and reflections on the boundary stones and rivers, the maps and marks that serve and signify this frontier. My aim (t)here is to think around, through and 'against' borders. Following Barker (1998, p. 120) therefore:
'To think against is to analyse the level of a surface, not to get closer to or further from the truth or objective reality but to reveal other surfaces and points of contact. '
