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would have to get the car to the border ourselves, even if we had to push it.
As we proceeded across Germany and Austria we talked to other tourists, all of whom had a tale tc 11 about driving in Czechoslovakia.
One couple lost their way following a detour (easy to do since all road signs are in the Slovak alphabet; the universal picture signs, to which we were accustomed, were used only seldomly) and ended up in the midst of a tank exercise.
They found themselves surrounded by men with machine guns and tanks rumbling by on either side.
The army detained them for four hours, checked and re-checked their passports and finally fined them $30 and escorted them at high speed to the border.
We decided we would forgo driving ourselves and hired a car and driver from Vienna, Austria. Our first inkling of the iron curtain came
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