tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35619589.post401583210042178387..comments2023-10-20T09:04:45.829+01:00Comments on My New Notebook: The Berlin WallCathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14103529618681254875noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35619589.post-61388638654828393312009-11-11T20:22:43.062+00:002009-11-11T20:22:43.062+00:00Looking back it was madness, but you don't rea...Looking back it was madness, but you don't really think of the dangers when young!<br /><br />JJ, we used to see the fortified border when travelling by train from Hannover to Bavaria. It was hard to comprehend that it was the Iron Curtain, just like the Berlin Wall.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14103529618681254875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35619589.post-70552936118790965052009-11-11T01:39:07.722+00:002009-11-11T01:39:07.722+00:00Wow: you are brave. My Dad did something similar o...Wow: you are brave. My Dad did something similar on a conference. They had been given gifts of a book each which the border control officers decided they wanted to confiscate. My Dad hid his so that he could keep it! Eeejit! What if he'd been caught?<br /><br />I used to visit West Germany as a child, right by the border. You could see the border guards with the guns in the towers. Then ten years ago, as an art student, I went to the opened up Berlin and what an amazing place.Jenny Beattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00640209636605410939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35619589.post-23444384860843892422009-11-10T20:51:15.185+00:002009-11-10T20:51:15.185+00:00I was quite terrified for you, reading that. Even...I was quite terrified for you, reading that. Even though I know you obviously got home OK. <br /><br />Sounds like quite an experience. You are much braver than me!Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12523875341438470968noreply@blogger.com