I was born in 1981 and grew up in an East German village. I spent my childhood roaming the streets of the village with my friends. The streets were largely unpaved back then and the properties of houses didn’t have fences – we just walked from one place to the next covering quite some distances throughout the day.
When I entered school, we walked. We were always a bunch of kids walking and it never felt like a chore. And I honestly don’t remember EVER having been driven to school. Actually, we didn’t even have a car. That was East Germany after all. No money for cars or paved roads. We HAD to walk. All the kids walked.
