SVINESUND, Norway — They haven’t been allowed to have each other over to their homes for a year now because of Covid. So come rain or shine, two 73-year-old Swedish twins have met every Saturday, each on their side of the border, on a bridge that links Norway and Sweden.
Every week, Ola and Pontus Berglund each keeps well behind a thin, yet impassable line on the ground, toting camping chairs, thermoses, sandwiches — and plenty of good cheer.
“We’re not allowed to cross the border. I have to stay one metre (yard) away on my side and he has to stay back one metre on his side,” Ola explains, the little Norwegian and Swedish flags they’ve attached to the bridge fluttering i…
Keep on reading: Border divides, and unites, Swedish twins separated by COVID-19