Long May weekend: Dresden

'What to do during the long May weekend?' - we considered a lot of options this year. We started from "a 3-capital-journey" (Wien, Budapest, Brno) but changed plans and decided for a Dresden-Prague trip.

We arrived at Dresden around midday on Sunday. The city was badly demolished during the allies bombing in the IIWW but now it's not so apparent, since a lot of monuments were rebuilt. We started our trip from die Frauenkirchie - the church that was renovated just a couple of years ago and is now the sign of distruction the war left.

The church inside didn't make a huge impression on me - everything was new, rather modest. What I liked best about the buidling was the tower, and - to be more precise - the tower view.

It was windy...

Dresden has rather a small old city part, so when we came down from the tower, we just strolled around without a map. At the river side there was some kind of a race accompanied by a festivity. From what I noticed, 'festivity' in Germany is understood as drinking beer, eating Bratwurst and listening to German folc music. That's I guess what we call "local charm".

When we decided we were done with the city tour, we went to the hotel and came back to Dresden in the evening to have a bite (no, we didn't take Bratwurst). As always, the cities in the sunset are never the same as in the day light.