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Don't remember this, but I last drove there in the 80's. Can't remember driving on motorways either so maybe we just avoided them.
My Swiss "vignette" (in the general OED sense of "a brief evocative description, account, or episode.") would be on the first in-country roadside pee stop, when I realised that the "rock" I was irrigating was in fact a set of very well camouflaged clamshell ferrocement doors, presumably to some kind of bunker. Zipped and bugged out sharpish.
Once I got my eye in I was surprised by the extent to which the whole pretty countryside was an armed camp, with obvious "dragons teeth" defenses around the pretty villages and much less obvious concealed defenses on the valley sides.
Contrasts rather with the situation in Taiwan (where there is a much more imminent existential threat) though I suppose fixed defenses are less effective these days.
Edited by edlithgow on 23/01/2023 at 02:56
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