border generosity

About to cross the border again (I’m sitting maybe 2 blocks from the crossing as I type these words), and just realized that it’s pretty nice of Northern Cyprus to let us cross free of charge. If they had a nominal charge of 5 or even 10 Euros, we would probably all pay without complaining. Indeed, we might even be led to stay a bit longer and thus spend a bit more after having made that nominal up-front investment. Maybe there’s some international legal reason why they have to make it free, or maybe they’re just being nice about it.