Just across the border from where I lived in Poland (Lipnica Wielka) and where my wife grew up (Jablonka) is a Slovak town called Trstená.

We go there every time we visit family in Poland.

I love Trstená because unlike much of Central Europe, it seems frozen in time. There are buildings there that surely look just the same as they did during the Communist period. The supermarket on the main town square is a perfect example.

A grey, dirty concrete block with inefficient windows — it positively screams Communist architecture.