Well my blog is still in the Czech Republic at the start of July 2011. We are now long back in Australia.
The last few weeks were taken up with some intense photo sorting and I have cut down to our very best photos (only 1500, slide night anyone???). From now on I will cover the rest of our trip in a more photographic form with a photo a day.
Our next stop was Berlin, but we took no new photos on that visit. However since my blog is lacking some fantastic photos from our visit
earlier in the year I'll put them in instead.
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| MIG bunkers at Ebberswalde, note the MIG in the front right with in front of it a net (MIG-faenger) to catch planes and stop them from running off the runway in case of problems. |
In 1967 Israel won the
6 Day War by surprising its neighbours with a series of bombing raids on their air force planes, which were parked in the then standard fashion on the tarmac. The rest of the world gulped and set about building protective buildings for their forces to protect their planes from similar attack. Airforce bases in the DDR (like this one) were made from massive concrete, with further massive concrete plane bunkers. Each bunker cost approximately what 200 DDR houses did at the time. Now one can be yours for just $30 000 Euro and the biggest challenge people are facing is removing them.
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