Maritim Hotel & Internationales Congress Center Dresden

What a sad day. We roared our way through Berlin for the last time. Made great time and got to Dresden fine. Had a bit of an issue finding the garage again and there are lots of cobbled roads. Between driving on them and the van roaring it was a bit stressful but we got there in the end. The guy who hires them out is so cool... very chilled and relaxed. He took us ...

The Rebuilt City &#8211; Dresden<br><br>Dresden was pretty much wiped out in World War 2. It has since been rebuilt but the fires that burnt the city down remain and a lot of the old statues and buildings are stained black. I have been sick as a dog and nearly tainted the city with a bit of chunder! <br><br>So I don't have much to say ...

... country is like looking for cheap fuel, you keep wandering around, getting thirstier until you either give up and settle for the price you just found, or you go back and enjoy the benefits of the search. In this case, it was probably a bit of both. <br><br>Anyway, the excursion to Dresden was well worth it. Now I know what I am in for when I get to Munich. Expensive food, expensive beer, and an empty wallet. But it will be all worth it&#8230;<br><br>More to come! <br>

... very few, comparatively to other cities, war factories. In fact, everything thought that this city was safe from attack because Berlin was so near. Dresden had even had 10 false alarms for air raids. Because everyone thought the allies wouldn't bother Dresden, the officials had no real bunkers or air raid shelters for the general public. Military personnel had bunkers but mainly ordinary people might just have basements or such.<br><br><br><br> Arthur "Bomber ...

... the river to see what was on the other side of town, and didn&#8217;t find much. We considered going into a museum, but decided that we had seen enough art the day before. We caught the bus to go back to the festival, but at a red light, we saw another random festival/market, so we jumped off the bus just as the doors were closing. Once we got to the market though, we realized it was all pottery. We browsed around for a while, ate, then decided to head back to the hostel to ...

... me to in Berlin and I had shockingly enjoyed. I know it is a rare opportunity for me to enjoy a beer, since I usually find them disgusting!<br>I am supposed to meet up with her friend Peter in a couple hours, as he is going to kinda take me on a tour around the city while she is at work for the day. We are planning to meet back up with her later tonight so we can have some dinner and wine together on a hill along the river to watch the sunset. : )<br>

I forgot to mention this in the beginnig but I found out that breakfast only cost an addiotn 6 Euros each day, so I ate there every morning. Well today, i bought a guitar. nothing fancy just one that i found in a pawn shop across from my hostel. I took my guitar and rode for a while till a found a nice place to play. I started playing and people didn't seem to care. I started to play louder but people ...

... the city. So I settled into the hostel, took a shower and a little nap. I then decided to have an adventure. I didnt take a map and just started walking. I ended up finding a lake and a river. Hamburg is quite pretty and reminded me a little of Switzerland. I managed to stumble upon the Rathaus which was a huge elaborate building that served as a town hall. I also happened to run into the boys there. There was a nice open air food ...

Mick had this fantastic idea to go to Dreseden for a day, to break up our journey to Berlin. Do you remember seeing those 'feature' stories on the weather news every now again of a European snow storm where the cars pile up and no-one can move for a couple of days? Well, that's how the weather had been like for the previous three days - I think they had about a metre of snow in 24 hours at one stage, which believe me, is quite a bit of snow. Now, for the first ...

... has been fine, as in this you can get anything and anyone, from really nice people to complete freaks. In Berlin I met this Polish guy who only spoke German, but who liked me and had no problem in waking me up during the night to tell me this amount of things I couldn't understand. In Leipzig there was this chubby English girl, who told me she felt unconfortable about sleeping in the same room as I. I didn't keep quiet and ...