von Michael Hieslmair | Jul 28, 2014 | First Research Trip, Team Vienna |
Stopover at the Estonian Road Museum in Varbuse, located in southern part of Estonia, displaying the history of the construction of roads from ancient times to the present, but also the development of vehicles for building roads and those driving on them, and even the development from old post stations to gas station. Unfortunately it was closed – like almost every museum in the EU on Mondays. But we walked through the outdoor part – a very intriguing staging of stretches of roads and their ’nodes‘ at different times. We’ve to come back again! Very nice: an old Lada full with consumer items imported from West Berlin! ...
von Michael Hieslmair | Jul 28, 2014 | First Research Trip, Team Vienna |
What a fancy system – operated by a private company on behalf of the EU administration. For crossing the Estonian/ Russian border at Luhamaa one has to draw a number and park the car at the waiting area. In the meanwhile one can also use the facilities inside the terminal – having coffee and watching the truckers getting their customs documents processed....
von Michael Hieslmair | Jul 28, 2014 | First Research Trip, Team Vienna |
After we recognized that we crossed the border between Lithuania and Latvia we immediately made a U-turn to take a closer look at the abandoned terminal. We were wondering how long these border station was in...
von Michael Hieslmair | Jul 27, 2014 | First Research Trip, Team Vienna |
The very famous marktet for second-hand cars in Lithuania and close to the Polish border and on the corridor from Minsk (BY) to Kaliningrad. There is very famous eponymic book by the historian Karl Schlögel. He in one of the books‘ essays describes the role of this market. But we were out of luck and it seems that we got there exactly on the wrong time-slot – hardly anybody was there! So we missed the ‚real‘ experience. Or it is just an indicator that the market got more formalized and the informal vendors managed to build up businesses. But probably they nowadays might have been replaced by professional car...
von Michael Hieslmair | Jul 26, 2014 | First Research Trip, Team Vienna |
… truck drivers getting stuck rhythmically – since they have to follow the ban on driving during weekends in the whole EU. Of course drivers from the same country, speaking the same language gather at the same...
