>>In that sense, the east begins 60 km south of here... on turkish side of Belgrade :). OTOH, I heard that the Balkans begin(s?) in Schillerstrasse in München.
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>You mix up. Bavaria is a northern italian exclave. This is the other side of Adriatic Sea.

The story isn't wrong, it's just obsolete. Throughout the seventies up to, I guess, deep into the nineties, all the computershops in that streets, plus other electronics and whatnot (Konrad being one that I remember, even though they didn't have good prices that day so I bought my Atari in a department store) were the main source of stuff to be smuggled here. You could hear serbocroatian, and probably albanian and rromani any day in that street.

Then I guess it died off as even smuggling isn't what it used to be. Today we still take care to pay at least a symbolic tribute to the, ahem, custom of smuggling, to honor the activity that helped keep us afloat in the thinner years.

So it's the Italian nowadays? Who'd a thunk...