East Germany has of course been a no go area for a very long time. After that it took many years before we finally ventured into that part of Germany, an eight hours drive from our home.
By then the country was united of course, but the partition still remained in the names the German people gave themselves: Ossies and Wessies. After a couple of years the Ossies became sort of homesick for their old country, hence the Ostalgie: nostalgia for pre war East Germany. This is not the place to delve further into the German history, I tell it to explain the title of this blog - apart from it being a nice wordplay for my Ozzie readers.
Anyway, a couple of years ago Pieter wanted to travel the Oder-Neisse border, the old border between Germany and Poland. During that - very interesting - trip we ended up in the Cottbus area, an open pit mining area near the Polish and Chech border.
It was there where we saw our first Ossie Eyes.
In that part of Germany the roofs have eyes.
The roofs actually LOOK at you. It's sweet, it's funny, it's charming and it's something we had never seen before. It thrilled us. Enjoy!
By then the country was united of course, but the partition still remained in the names the German people gave themselves: Ossies and Wessies. After a couple of years the Ossies became sort of homesick for their old country, hence the Ostalgie: nostalgia for pre war East Germany. This is not the place to delve further into the German history, I tell it to explain the title of this blog - apart from it being a nice wordplay for my Ozzie readers.
Anyway, a couple of years ago Pieter wanted to travel the Oder-Neisse border, the old border between Germany and Poland. During that - very interesting - trip we ended up in the Cottbus area, an open pit mining area near the Polish and Chech border.
It was there where we saw our first Ossie Eyes.
In that part of Germany the roofs have eyes.
The roofs actually LOOK at you. It's sweet, it's funny, it's charming and it's something we had never seen before. It thrilled us. Enjoy!
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