Not all of my post cards are gray and full of barb wire. Today I'll show something slightly more positive. This card is sent 1990 and the wall is no longer called an "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart" and it is no longer used to keep people from fleeing the GDR. On the picture below people are riding the wall for fun and to look over the border. This would have been totally unacceptable some years earlier. The western citizens had towers and other spots where they could glimpse over the wall, but not like this.
The card is called "Mauerreiter", german for "wall riders". The text also says "so gefällt's uns besser!", which means something like "like this we like better".
Unfortunately I can not find out where the photo is taken. Maybe someone reading this can help?
The card is sent to Sweden, to the city Helsingborg.
The text says, translated from swedish:
Dear both of you!
We have nice days here in Berlin. Today we have hacked on the wall and gone through a historical museum. East Germany still differed a lot from west. Tomorrow we will travel back home again. Tack care! Hugs /[some name i can not decipher, maybe Karin]
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