>> You can drive through most of the EU without
>> much hope of seeing a border.
>
>Before it was the EU, that was a bit different.

Even now, on many main roads there is a semblance of a "border post" in some
form of parking area where traffic police and customs may set up to catch
unwary truck drivers with bad paperwork.


>If you wanted contrast, you should have been there
>during the Cold War years :)

A cousin of mine took a Bedford camper van through the Soviet Satellite
countries during the 70's. The stories she had to tell about crossing the
borders were many, along with some of the other hilarious tales she had to
tell of situations that arose because of the way the economy worked there at
that time.

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