From the 1980s to now.
I wonder how Germany has changed? I was there as a teenager, during the cold war. I did not see the wall, but was surprised by the boarder. Talk about attitude changing for me. It was a high fence in most places. It had towers every 150' with armed guards in therm. The other side of the fence had land mines and the fence in places had automatic weapons that would go off if you touched the fence. I was with my exchange student brother Tom, who had lived with us years before. He told me about how two men accidentally went over the line in the middle of some body of water while canoeing. Both were shot, one killed. The other was taken prisoner for better than 10 years. He told other stories about it, but one is enough.
Reply to this Yeah, there are some real horror stories(or should I say truths) about the wall. I bought a book by an escape helper who helped a lot of people to escape from the east, last time I was in Berlin.
I never actually got to see the wall in place. I was travelling in Europe in 1989 but we did not go so far north. We cut accross to Czechoslavakia instead. When I got back to Ireland from that trip, I saw the Berlin wall comming down on television. I had just been in east Europe shortly before all those revolutions. I now have a piece of the wall though. In Berlin they are selling it with postcards. It is in a transparent glass capsule in the middle of the postcard.
Reply to this I seem to have the affect of creating new threads LOL
Reply to this I seem to have the affect of creating new threads LOL
Which is a good thing. Keep the interesting topics comming. 😊
When a new subject starts in the middle of a thread, we branch it to make a new discussion. This is out of respect for the opening poster of the original thread and to allow other people to talk about whatever comes up. 😊
Reply to this Nah! People who keep the forums lively would not be called anything as negative as thread jacker. Not by the moderators anyway. 😊
Reply to this Funny thing is with this one - this was a thread they had created from a question I asked in the introduction thread.
Reply to this One thing I am happy to say has changed in Germany is the way the hostels for travellers are run. When I was travelling in Germany in 1989 there was no chance of having a lazy lie in, in the mornings. They had ways of getting people out of bed early. Then at around 9AM they locked the hostels so everybody had to be out by then and could not come back for several hours. There was also a curfew. Some climbed out windows etc in order to have a night life and had to be let in by other hostel guests when they got back. These days there is no obligatory early rising, lock out or curfew in the hostels. Thank goodness for that.
Reply to this I remember my mother speaking of something like that on a trip she took. She needed to catch her plane and had to climb out of the window in the morning to get to her plane.
Reply to this And I havent seen one of those tea shops that used to be so typical in Germany, for years. They sold all kinds of tea. So you just went in, bought a cup of tea and drank it standing at a table in there.
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