Hilton Dresden

... expect in dresden.  tim educated me a little on the 2 hour drive south.  known as the florence of the north. dresden was the victim of a massive air raid by english and american bombers near the end of wwii which destroyed the center of the city ...

... blackened. Either they have been left smoke stained deliberately for effect or pollution has taken its toll over the last 60 years. Dresden was nothing to write home about, I thought,  but then my impressions were taken from a snapshot point of view ...

 Berlin - Saturday, May 14 Our escape from Dresden wasn't nearly as painful as the arrival. We figured we might have missed a turn or two coming in. You think!?? We found ourselves on the Autobahn and on our way. We encountered construction and ...

Next destination is Prague and we stopped at Dresden in Germany for about 2 hours and did some shopping at a local shopping centre.  Arriving in Prague around 4.30pm, have dinner at 6pm then go on the optional "Prague by Night" tour.  Our local ...

... two nights.  While we were there we visited the German concentration camps. After the two days we headed north to the capital, Warsaw. after warsaw we went to Berlin, heading back down to Vienna we stoped of in Dresden, Germany and Prauge, Czech ...

... to hang out at as a teenager and we buy some Dresdener Stollen which is their famous holiday cake/bread.  Mmm delicious.  Dresden has a big Christmasmarkt, but the real famous old part of it burned down the week before which was sad.  But ...

... BA airport is very, very sad.  At first you drive up to the old airport, and you get a little nervous because it looks like Dresden after the fire-bombing.  Then you relax as the car drives around to the new part, built in 2000.  It is ...

... , and for the "best preserved (1,000 year old) town of Monrovia."   Map showing Krakow-Olomouc-Prague-Dresden   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Holy Trinity Column is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.         . . ...

... Birkenau, the Black Madonna, Prague, the sandstone massive of Southern Germany, and a 7-night cruise on the Elbe from Dresden to Hamburg.  I also enjoyed a few days with friends from Lippstadt, Germany, and Manchester, England, by extending ...

... our traveling to a minimum between now and Christmas...when we're going to ATHENS.  There will hopefully be another entry from Dresden when I go back to pick up my visa (yay!) and maybe something from the Nuremburg Christmas market.  But that'll ...

... ! Sadly no super powers for me :p Once again we had a drive day, this time to Berlin, with a stop in Dresden on the way through. I became a Hilton 'hotel guest' so Kate and I could use the toilet... for some reason i don't think the cleaning lady believed ...

... , I couldn't leave it to those 2 weeks in Bangalore but extended my stay by another week of vacation at the end. Anike, a colleague from Dresden went with me on this 3-week-adventure-tour to India, which I felt well prepared for by my visit to the small ...