Time for two more pics from my Euro travels.
(1983-4)
The clues are after the pics ![:wink: :wink:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
I’m in a queue to get through a border.
This is what’s in front of me…and I’m still a couple of miles from the border post. ![:frowning: :frowning:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/frowning.png?v=12)
![](http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z306/dgsa_adr/Image12.jpg)
Soon after my arrival at the tail end of the queue,
this little lot had built up behind me:
![](http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z306/dgsa_adr/Image11.jpg)
Clues:
- This place was notorious for delays, my record here was 30hrs to cross this border, with all paperwork already filled in and correct.
![:open_mouth: :open_mouth:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/open_mouth.png?v=12)
- I’m on my way out of the EU. (EEC as was.)
- Your paperwork also needed to have a green postage stamp placed on it, in box #42, otherwise you weren’t going anywhere.
- All vehicles had to queue for a single weighbridge at this border.
So, where was I and which countries are involved ![:question: :question:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/question.png?v=12)
ÖSTERREICH; KEIFERSFELDEN■■?
brit pete:
ÖSTERREICH; KEIFERSFELDEN■■?
Hi brit pete your score is one out of three. ![:grimacing: :grimacing:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/grimacing.png?v=12)
If I told you which bit you got right, that would spoil my fun ![:smiley: :smiley:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/smiley.png?v=12)
brit pete:
scharding??
'Fraid not again Pete ![:frowning: :frowning:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/frowning.png?v=12)
At Schärding, the mountains weren’t as close as in my pics. ![:wink: :wink:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
You’ve still scored 1/3 though.![:grimacing: :grimacing:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/grimacing.png?v=12)
Italy and the BRENNER grenze??
Well D.D,
you have got me bafflad. I know its not the Dutch Mountains and I could not disclose the name of the border anyway. ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
I would of said Austria to Yugoslavia at Spielfeld, where I spent over 10 hours on a few occasions. However, I dont think Austria was in the E.E.C. in 1984, but the green postage stamp rings a bell.
I must take my hat off to you Dave, ( it’s the cone shaped one with the letter D on the front.) ![:frowning: :frowning:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/frowning.png?v=12)
mushroomman:
Well D.D,
you have got me bafflad. I know its not the Dutch Mountains and I could not disclose the name of the border anyway. ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
I can.![:grimacing: :grimacing:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/grimacing.png?v=12)
The name of the popular Dutch border was Boschboschenbosch. ![:wink: :wink:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
mushroomman:
I would of said Austria to Yugoslavia at Spielfeld, where I spent over 10 hours on a few occasions. However, I dont think Austria was in the E.E.C. in 1984, but the green postage stamp rings a bell.
You’re spot-on there mushroomman. The postage stamps were made of ever so thin (almost see-through) paper and cost OS 0.40 (40 groschen) apiece. If you weren’t TIR with a GV60, the stamps had to be stuck in box 42 on the back of each T form for transit.
Agreed mushroomman it does look a bit like Spielfeld, but I used to go via Loibel into Yugo to miss the ‘tourists.’ ![:wink: :wink:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
mushroomman:
I must take my hat off to you Dave, ( it’s the cone shaped one with the letter D on the front.) ![:frowning: :frowning:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/frowning.png?v=12)
Hey mate, it was a long time ago and human memory is a strange thing. Isn’t it odd what bits we can remember and which bits we lose. A bit of a lottery methinks.![:grimacing: :grimacing:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/grimacing.png?v=12)
Back then, you wouldn’t have done many trips if you needed a cone-shaped hat, so I know that doesn’t apply to you. ![:wink: :wink:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/wink.png?v=12)
Now I’ll have to have a rummage for some more pics. ![:smiley: :smiley:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/smiley.png?v=12)
I may be gone for some time… ![:laughing: :laughing:](https://emoji.discourse-cdn.com/twitter/laughing.png?v=12)