Page 17 - A Miscellany of Memories by Justyna Kulesza

October 3rd , 1982 Evening is approaching, we're broke so we've decided to go back to the hotel where we had booked our vacation and there we will try to exchange our car for a kayak or boat. October 5, 1982 What bad luck! Nobody even wants to look at our car! Now we only have the 3rd option left… The tunnel. October 7, 1982 Oh no! We are at the Austrian border crossing! Do you know what this means? They may pinch us and send us to jail because we don’t have the right passports! We only have the passports valid in communist countries! What shall we do?! Behind us there is an autocade so we can’t turn back! October 10, 1982 It's almost the middle of October. The weather is as ugly as sin! Gray, rainy and windy… Such weather is associated with misfortune but this time it proved completely different! German drivers and tourists were upset, looked behind the window panes and yelled at the customs officers to raise the barrier because they wanted to move on and that’s 17