Border messages by satellite…. Border Crossing #1

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Next day was our first border crossing from Germany to the Czech Republic… marked unassumingly by a small EU sign.  But once we had crossed, the visual signs became more clear, and the landscape more wild. Actually the first thing that marked the crossing was a small reminder from our mobile phone providers, followed by…

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Sorbian poets and a midnight critical mass….

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. On our route from Proschim we were made more aware of the extent of the open cast mines in the outskirts and surrounding areas that left huge blue lakes in place where farm land and village life once thrived. We did, I must admit take advantage of one of these lakes at lunchtime, only to…

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Terezin, the Elbe and mountain bars….

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Many people said that although it was their hardest day’s cycling through the mountains, up up up up … the free wheeling down again made it all worth it, and was for many their best day’s cycling. The next day was mainly down hill all the way to the Elbe river, that we followed al…

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The Price of Coal…

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. A few of us cycled up to whitness the enormatiy of the the Coal Mines just outside Lauzitz….

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