Aparthotel Zum Krauterhexlein Dresden
Hofwiesenstr. 24 Dresden, Saxony, 01169, Germany
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New Country, new language barrier
... day. After lunch it was a tour of the church in the main square, tour of the opera house (which use to be the royal palace) and then a long walk back to the train station.
That evening back in Prague, most of the other students went to a large 5 story dance club. Me, I wanted to go find one of the many jazz and blues clubs that dot Prague. Two other students and I were told to find Club Englet and we should find some great music. Found ...
German Church
... give my face, hands and feet some much needed respite from the cold. Almost the second I passed over the threshold a man thrust a piece of paper into my hand and gestured towards an empty seat murmuring something in German as he did so. Taken off guard I promptly sat down and watched as a pastor walked up the front. Of course I had managed to walk into a church service. As a general rule I don't enjoy listening to church services because as a ...
Snow, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
... I ran back to 13 and yelled "sprechen sie englisch" to a crowd of people gathered there. One German guy piped up and I asked him if he knew where the Dresden train was departing from, he did, it had been moved to platform 11. With two minutes left I sprinted down the stairs and across the hall to 11, there was another small group of people standing around with luggage who confirmed that the Dresden train was leaving from the ...
Dresden
... in Dresden and Coventry during WWII. This too was interesting. The entire city of Dresden was levelled. I can't imagine what it would be like to live through something like that.
The Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) is a beautiful church in the middle of Neustadt Market Square.
The Zwinger Palace was undergoing renovations and the gardens would make the Palace a beautiful place to ...
Destruction, restoration and magic.
... has allowed the few surviving original bricks to be replaced exactly where they were in the original building. In a poignant gesture of reconciliation, the new clock on this church tower was built by a descendant (can't remember if it was son or grandson) of one of the bombers responsible for Dresden's destruction. All this restoration of course, costs billions of euros and decisions are constantly being made on how best to use their dwindling restoration funds. There is no lack ...


