Only road? Or water and air allowed too? Only road would be from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Prague, Czechoslovakia. 1983, by coach. At the border, armed Czechoslovakian soldiers came in and checked our passports (I think I had never seen guns before, or armed military). Later on, in Prague, a few of my classmates and I were halted, and booked (10 crones), by, again, armed soldiers (or police that looked like soldiers), for walking on the grass on the Wenceslas Blvd. We were told beforehand, to not bring much pocket money because we wouldn’t need much anyway (it being cheap as dirt, everything). It was.