Hotel Dresden
Wilhelm Franke Strasse 90 Dresden, Saxony, 01219, Germany
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Entering Dresden
Woke up early in Berlin and did some final shopping. The girls bought some Birkenstocks for home. Caught a late morning train to Dresden. Was a smooth 2.5 hours ride. Felt like we were on a modernized Hogwarts Express. Pretty neat. We did get off on the wrong stop thanks to me. Did not realize Dresden had like 3 stops. Was pretty quick catching the …
Exploring Dresden
Today, we explored Dresden a little more. The city is very quiet and totally opposite of the hustle and bustle of Berlin. I found it pretty relaxing. There is still a lot of reconstruction going on with construction sites and cranes all over the place. Despite that there was still plenty to see. The day went pretty well except for a rough patch on …
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Destruction, restoration and magic.
... the communist era and today the heavily decorated palaces, churches and other public buildings are still being reconstructed and restored. They even look aged as the local sandstone used in rebuilding is very susceptible to air pollution and has taken on a blackened hue. It's difficult to imagine they were once piles of smoking rubble.
Particularly impressive is the Church of Our Lady where modern reconstruction methods using thousands of photographs and ...
Exploring the historic city center
... the buildings surrounding the schlossplatz. the state parliament building is to the left, followed by the gabled georgenbau with arched portals, and then the catholic church, the hofkirche with it's delicate belltower on the right.
moving on down the chiaverigasse passed the hausmann tower to the left and the hofkirche to the right, i came out onto the theaterplatz with the semper opera house in front and the ...
Bombed the toilet in the bomb shelter
... t possibly be a good thing to be breathing that as i slept. our host was not able locate a plumber to make an emergency call to fix it on a saturday so we packed up and headed to dresden for the night.
(btw, toilet didn't work because we accidentally flushed a travel size bottle of saline down it the night before and it burned out the water pump motor)
stopped to see the kaiser wilhelm memorial church ...



