Hotel Am Terrassenufer Dresden

... a little tour of Dresden too which was really nice! There are some pretty impressive old building. Well technically they are old but were almost destroyed in the war. They have only been rebuilt in the last 5 to 10 years which is amazing! Had a wicked Turkish vegie plate then said our goodbyes and got on the train back to Berlin. Back to public transport for us!<br>

... I yelled it out! Herron Paracetamol has been my savour. I pop a couple of those and I walk around on a cloud. Music sounds better, everything looks prettier.<br><br>I'm off to Munich for Oktoberfest now. Don't know how I am going to handle drinking a beer. Probably going to mix it with some Paracetamol!<br><br>Regards<br><br>Hard en<br>

... as myself, this was only temporary. A new language to learn and different beer to drink. My first taste of Germany, was not disappointing. As was the first taste of German beer, which I was going to get a skin full at Oktoberfest. It was nice to savour the first experience. <br><br>Using my super-tourist skills, I walked towards the pointy buildings I could see, the churches. It was a good indication that this was the city centre, or the tourist centre at least. For ...

... see how beautiful and interesting it is now and learn it's history and how it and the citizens have suffered.<br><br><br><br> Frederich Taylor has a book out in the last few years that gives a better history of Dresden and gives more accurate figures based on historical documents that aren't Soviet biased. Kurt Vonnegut was also a POW in Dresden and he wrote Slaughterhouse Five, a fiction, but it came from his experiences there.<br><br><br><br> I enjoyed our visit very much.

... around for a while, then saw a church towering over the buildings a few blocks away and headed that way. When we came up to it, we were in awe. It was so beautiful from the outside, but we were not prepared for the inside. It was so beautiful on the inside. We walked in and sat down, listened to a small choir, then lit some candles for our loved ones (miss you Granddaddy). We exited to find the way to the top, paid, then started climbing. We got to the top of the church, and ...

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... for a drink but when I arrived after dinner the place was crawling with 16 and 17 year old german students. I knew again I was going to have a tough time. My hostel was so far outside the center of town that I just gave up and went to bed. I thought this was a right off and I'll start again in Prauge, the amount of people that went to Prauge there had to be people hangin out there, to my surprise it was tougher then Dresden.............

... sad to learn that it wasn't a "Zwinger's" club. Mary lagged further behind me than usual today, so I had plenty of time alone with my thoughts (sometimes this can be a dangerous thing ...) I did much reflecting about the trip and had a bit of an epiphany. For the first time in three years, I was finally ready to come home. I'm not talking about returning just from the trip ... it's like I've been running away from something for a ...

It was May first, the big internation Day Of Labor in Europe, and I had to day off. Michael, a friend who lives here, offered to go along and be my guide to Dresden for a day! He coached me well on my Autobahn driving technique and guided us in and out of the Zentrum of the Old City. We had about 5 hours there to see the main sights, and here are some photos!

The oddest thing happened to me while I was writing in Munich. Some German woman started speaking to me and lying on me. I had to physically push her off of me and run away. I had to find someone to talk to so I wandered the station a bit and struck up a conversation. We ended up talking until my train came. He was really nice and may meet up with me in Italy ...