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…
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…
From the outside, the “Neue Residenz” looks just like a government building, which in fact it is today for the most part. On the inside the approximately rooms, which are still left in their original state, such as the “Kaisersaal”, make you feel like you are in an old castle. The “Kaisersaal” was actually never…
As the buildings in a city hardly speak for themselves, I decided to join a guided tour. I was a bit shocked to see that 80 other people had the same idea. That would get a a difficult tour. But luckily, the tourist office expected that many visitors and the crowed was split in four…
