My other planned summer vacation fell through (of course after I booked my ticket to Europe :-)). Yes, I was planning a vacation (believe it or not). Vacation means that I may only read email once a day :-). Anyway, so I invited a friend and we decided to do the tourist thing in Germany, actually, more around the area where my parents live (Saxony). Obviously, I lived in this area for quite a while but it was very nice to actually explore it! So the tour was: Bautzen, Goerlitz, Munich (I had to apply for a new US visa there … and my iPad was stolen …), Koenigsstein, and Dresden! It was all very beautiful! Not much to say besides the commented pictures below :-).
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- Bautzen — imagine of somebody asks you to translate *that* 🙂
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- The famous Reichenturm
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- The city hall
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- The watertower
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- Bautzen is surrounded by a beautiful old city wall!
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- Watertower again, medieval ambient 🙂
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- Goerlitz
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- … there are a lot of those towers.
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- and churches 🙂
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- We also walked to Poland (standing in it here) — this is how Germany looks from Poland, isn’t it shiny?
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- Nice medieval streets everywhere 🙂
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- Munich — the English Garden is right next to the US consulate!
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- The Chinese Tower
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- Rathaus
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- Das Isartoor 🙂
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- Dresden! We walked in 🙂
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- Zwinger
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- Koenigsstein, we decided to walk up (like in the good old days!). It’s a beautiful walk and much shorter than the tourist office claims (25 instead of 40 minutes).
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- Would you attack that thing? Nobody ever tried :-).
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- This is the first entrance (defense circle)
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- … the second …
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- … the third …
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- … and the fourth, finally in there!
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- Nice view, definitely.
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- Cute towers 🙂
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- And strange ones too!
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- Der “Lustraum” – if you know what I mean ;-).
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- Some leftover cannons 🙂
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- I couldn’t take it home though.
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- The city of Koenigsstein is somewhat small. Do you see our car here?
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- A true fortress!
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- The 2nd deepest well in Europe!
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- Da
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- The famous “Elbradweg”, must be very nice …