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Subject: Re: Visiting what used to be the "Iron Curtain" Posted on: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:17:45 +0000

On 20 Dec 2006 10:04:36 -0800, "Gregory Morrow"
wrote:

>
>barney2@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
>

>>
>> You see much the same thing (regarding buildings) within Berlin, too,
>> though of course it is a rapidly-changing city.
>
>
>Even the smell was a bit different the farther east you went, high -
>sulfur coal was still in common use, producing lots of soot. This I
>really noticed in Prague (which in any case is still fairly
>polluted)...

In 2001 I took a train from Berlin out to Beelitz. The coach was a
refurbished Reichsbahn vehicle, but that distinctive brown coal/cheap
disinfectant smell which permeated the DDR in the old days still
lingered.



Keith, Bristol, UK