> My trip to Vancouver was an excellent opportunity to investigate the
> "longest undefended border". It was truly an "odd" thing to see. The 
> GPS
> said I was standing meters from the border, but my eyes showed an 
> area
> of cut grass, and a 1' tall farmer's fence, with a small forest 
> across
> the border. If I didn't have the map there is NO way I would have 
> known
> that crossing that patch of grass meant entering another country! 
> Very
> cool.

Much of Europe is like that. You can drive through most of the EU 
without much hope of seeing a border. My 1st ever European border 
crossing (on land) was France/Germany, so we looked out for it 
carefully. We were perhaps 100 metres past it before we discovered it 
had passed by.

There's quite a contrast getting in and out of Hungary. And if you are 
a truck driver, getting into Slovakia from the Czech republic takes 
typically about 3 days I'm told. The queue of trucks stretched for 
many miles/km from the border.



        RM


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