I picked up these pins 20 years ago at the Berlin Wall while travelling around Europe with some friends. This week’s anniversary prompted me to dig them up. Well, it looks to me like the pins are Czech, but what the hell they’re still beautiful, no? I was there during a period where there were some rapid changes happening – for example, a day pass to go into East Germany was not hard to get. But we were still stunned, a week later, hanging out in the Netherlands to learn that the the wall was coming down.