As you drive across the border between Slovakia and Austria at Berg you get a poignant sense of how it must have seemed, pre-1989.
here’s Austria’s flat, open farmland, broken by gentle wooded hills, suddenly erupting up on the other side of the dramatic Danube-Morava river confluence into the steep forested karst of DevÃnsky Kobyla with starkly Communist-era Bratislava suburbs like Devinska Nova Ves rising out of the trees.
















