Iron Curtain Goes Wild

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0120070119How the defences and fortifications of Iron Curtain are being turned into a nature reserve

Neil Oliver walks the Iron Curtain, exploring how the boundary has changed over the years

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Neil Oliver walks the Iron Curtain from Trieste on the Adriatic to Lubeck on the Baltic. The watchtowers and barbed wire which divided Europe for forty years have become the world's longest nature reserve.

3/3. Neil travels through the once divided city of Berlin on the way to Lubeck, where so many East Germans perished attempting the deceptively short swim from East to West.

Exploring how the Iron Curtain boundary has changed over the years.

Neil Oliver walks the Iron Curtain, exploring how the boundary has changed over the years