"Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...> wrote:

>Do you know why nobody speaks with each other over the borderline?
>Is it not allowed or do they simply not have anything to say to each
>other?

If, as Udo says, both villages were repopulated after WWII, not as
many families as usual would find themselves on different sides of
the border. I guess you could say that people don't have much to say
to eachother - they have never known each other.

But the last paragraph on
<http://www.hradeknadnisou.cz/his/vlastiveda/pages/ol/ol02.htm>
reads:

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Today, it is even better, hardly anyone notices the person who
illegally jumps over the bridge behind the old customs house. One
jump and you're in Poland. The people there just like us paint their
fences and their garages, they just use different colours. Every once
in a while a Czech police car drives through the village on the ould
neutral road [which used to be neutral, but has been entirely in the
Czech Republic since WWII; the Poles have built their own on their
side of the porder, PH], more than anything else as a warning for
smugglers and as a reminder of the fact that the times of border
stones haven't gone completely. But try and explain that to the
birds, who sit on the old iron guard tower near the boundary stream!
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-Pepijn