Where am I, not the UK? (1 Viewer)

[ManTheVan]

Ok time up. Thanks to everyone for giving me an evenings entertainment and coming up with some good ideas of where next.
It’s a point in a small sculpture park that marks the old Iron Curtain frontier where Austria, Slovakia and Hungary met. We’re staying at a fine Stellplatz in nearby Deutsch Jahrdorf. Highly recommended, few facilities but quiet and just a donation for the stay.
In the village is a “fridge honest box” with beer and wine from a local farm, just opposite a covered bench and table, what a good idea.

Thanks everyone….. the wine by the way is excellent!

Enjoy! Thanks for an interesting map chase...

 

[brynric]

And a chicken popped in for dinner.

 

[KiwiKampers]

I enjoyed that virtual tour brynric but I have used up all the data on my iPad trying to pinpoint where you are! Your trip is whetting my appetite. We enjoy finding obscure border crossings and especially enjoy the former Eastern bloc countries.

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[brynric]

We enjoy finding obscure border crossings and especially enjoy the former Eastern bloc countries.

Sorry about the data. We’re mainly touring Austria but we couldn’t resist a cycle into counties as they’re so close. Old Eastern Block is an added attraction. We plan to visit Prague on the way home to complete the set.

 

[Brains]

A bit of a tragic place.

My grandmother was born just up the road in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) and lived there until he got married.
Her Aunt and Cousins lived just down the road in Kittsee (Austria)
As a kid she would cycle there for lunch, or get a lift after school with her (Austrian) uncle as he worked in Bratislava.
It was all part of the Austro-Hungarian empire then, as now, no borders.

Then came WW2 and then the Iron Curtain.
Her husband and two of the four children managed to escape to West Germany in 1956.
She was not allowed to see her children or the rest of the western family for 30 years until she retired in the late 1970's, by which time most of the older generation had died.

 

[brynric]

That is indeed a sad reflection on the setting. A little rusty barbed wire is all that remains as a reminder of a terrible time.

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[nicholsong]

A bit of a tragic place.

My grandmother was born just up the road in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia) and lived there until he got married.
Her Aunt and Cousins lived just down the road in Kittsee (Austria)
As a kid she would cycle there for lunch, or get a lift after school with her (Austrian) uncle as he worked in Bratislava.
It was all part of the Austro-Hungarian empire then, as now, no borders.

Then came WW2 and then the Iron Curtain.
Her husband and two of the four children managed to escape to West Germany in 1956.
She was not allowed to see her children or the rest of the western family for 30 years until she retired in the late 1970's, by which time most of the older generation had died.

Basia and I might not have been together now if her Sister had not managed to get out of Poland to London on a visa and then entered an arranged marriage in order to stay there.

A few years later Basia managed to get a visa to visit her, we met, she was still married, I kept in touch, husband died and a few years later I visited her.................and here we are after 11 years together.

The Iron Curtain could have stopped that progression happening.