Saturday 24 June 2023

The Iron Curtain Trail

 Lentira to Lieska 


Was invited to Midsummer celebrations by host last night.... a bit of a let down. It seemed to involve setting fire to an old boat ... and hoping that doesn't set fire to a new boat!


Throwing it down for most of day today ... but as they say there are good days for motorcycling ... and there are very good days for motorcycling.... 

It was a national holiday here so most things closed... can't understand logic of that but there you go.

During one downpour I was pleased to find  a Kioski run by 8 year old Ole and his mum...  couldn't work out if Ole was cutting edge fashionista  or colour blind!







Spent some time in a local outdoor museum in Lieska ... interesting but once you've seen one log House....

The windmill was interesting.... seemed totally over engineered...



Was fascinated though to see the community grain store... farmers put grain in in the good years and could get grain back out in the poorer years... it had double skinned walls to stop oiks being able to drill through and help themselves  ... even in the good old days eh!





A lovely old Border Guard Hut.... apparently  the had them every 30 km along the border before electronic surveillance etc.