After some very exhausting weeks I spent a weekend at home with my family, eating way too much and playing with my wonderful little nephew.

Saturday visited an exhibition in a remote village in the Austrian Bregenzerwald. A place where time goes slower than here in the big city, one thinks, but the exhibition is very progressive in a way. It´s called "Kopftuch Kulturen" scarf cultures and is in fact a comparative study of the carf traditions as it is/was lived in Central Europe, Africa, Asia and Turkey (that´s the political point of it all.) The old lady that supervised the museum told me how "back then" every woman used to wear scarves until many Turkish immigrants came and nobody wanted to be identified with them. How striking and sad that people abandon traditional culture treats as a political statement.

Today I went for a walk in the beautiful countryside of my home country, i.e. the fields around my village. I made some pictures documenting flora (trees) and fauna (cows) and the remnants of history sleeping among them. This point is very interesting: Switzerland, to which our country (Liechtenstein) has an open border, never participated in the 2nd World War, but was very afraid of a German invasion. General Henry Guisan, Leader of the War Government ordered the Swiss borders to be heavily armed and fortified. But his "master piece" was the "reduit" politics: He had the idea to use the Alps as a natural fortress. So they hollowed out whole mountains and built complexes big enough to house soldiers, machinery and cannons as well as whole hospitals.
Taking a stroll on the fields surrounded by these mountains you easily find anti tank barriers, barb wire supports and some slightly hidden entrances and gun holes of the above mentioned complexes.

Here´s my small photo set

An interesting [German] article on wikipedia.de about the reduit can be found here.