Crossing The Iron Curtain

30 июля 2019 г., Германия ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

We crossed over to the West this morning. We knew approximately where the border was but we pinned it down by the change in lampposts. Photo 1. Stalin built the Iron Curtain to isolate the Soviet Bloc countries from the West. Winston Churchill used the term in a speach he gave in 1946 at Westminster College in Missouri, where Susan and I have visited.

Photo 2: Halberstadt Cathedral holds the first pipe organ to be installed in a cathedral, year 1205. Photo 3 is of the Harz Mountains. Photo 4 was taken in Goslar, a World Heritage site because of the timber- framed structures in the Old Town area.Читать далее