On the borderline
An hour or so later, 99-1741 returns downhill at Hammerunterwiesenthal with some unexpected sun brightening the scene. The small "D" marker in the foreground designates the German border. On the other side of the little stream is the Czech Republic. In the DDR days standing here may have been inadvisable. Today with the Schengen agreement the border hardly exists, but the after a year of Covid lockdowns there was still a bit of excitement in simply walking across a national border again.
On the borderline
An hour or so later, 99-1741 returns downhill at Hammerunterwiesenthal with some unexpected sun brightening the scene. The small "D" marker in the foreground designates the German border. On the other side of the little stream is the Czech Republic. In the DDR days standing here may have been inadvisable. Today with the Schengen agreement the border hardly exists, but the after a year of Covid lockdowns there was still a bit of excitement in simply walking across a national border again.