This is the first time after a long break, I saw Berlin again. But it’s not yet the real stay at the capital of Germany. It’s just a short stop over, basically waiting for my next train to get me from Dresden to Rostock. But this is the first time I arrived by train at…
As I learned the two days before on a guided tour at Leipzig, every change in elevation over 10 meters is considered a mountain here. So the “mountain” forming the outer wall of the Elbe around Loschwitz, which elevates 84 meters is a true giant in the local terms. Of course I could have easily…
It looks like the German Museums perform a strict “no picture” policy, which has its good and bad sides. On the positive side, of course is that you don’t have other people disturbing you in looking at the exponates, but of course your on visual memory in forms of personal pictures gets a blank page.…
My first impression of Dresden, after walking around the old city center was a bit different from what I now think of the city at the end of a sightseeing tour day. The well restored “Frauenkirche” and other monsterenous buildings built in sandstone and often decorated let you think you are in a different time.…
The AHA Hotel surprised me with a really large and nice room. Not only is there plenty of space in the bedroom, but apart from a bath there is also a small kitchen and the entire room could really serve as a small flat. The view from my little balcony into the backyard is also…
What one can see at the museum “Runde Ecke” is really a bit devastating. Of course one has heard or seen reports about the DDR Stasi (Staatssicherheit). But seeing the mini cameras taking up to 470 pictures and how they have been hidden in clothes or accessories is a different story. There were even specially…
Well actually Leipzig would also deserve a real visit. But it just did not fit into my schedule. As I did not had to travel too far today from Bamberg to Dresden, though a stopover at Leipzig of roughly six hours was easily possible though. At first I tried to discover the center of the…
Just for about 3 months each year, the “Schloss Seehof” was actually used as the summer residence of the regents of Bamberg. Quite obviously hunting was more important at this place, than managing the city. At least the subjects on the paintings in the various rooms available for a guided tour now, mostly show hunting…
What started today in my through is really not necessary. But it feels like the start of a flu, which probably go a chance to outbreak due to my limited sleep consumption during the last night, as the poetry slam kept me awake quite a bit longer than normal. Anyway, today I visited a shop,…
When I saw the “Michael” in the “St. Michael” monastery, the figure as it was posed reminded my on the same figure at “Mont St. Michel”, on the north coast of France. Of course it is no surprise that the figure features the same symbolics, but just out of my memory, the two figures in…
