Dresden

Not much to say about dresden, it was a lunch stop between berlin and Prauge.
It was almost completely destroyed during the second world war, but has been fully restored to it's former glory. It was a beautiful city.









But also the site of an awesome lunch. The restaurant we went to has goose fat with bread on the menu, how could I turn down trying that!


It was actually really tasty, Although the portion size was a bit much.
This was followed up by a pumpkin quiche


And shared cake, although only two pieces between three, we didn't attempt the whole selection :).


So Dresden, pretty city with great food!



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Prauge

Prague was really pretty, almost unrealistically pretty. It was a bit like walking through a wedding cake.
There were some very pretty buildings though,



And some interesting statues on the castle gates.



The clock on the main square was pretty cool as well, I have no idea how to read it though.



There was a Salvador Dali Exhibit on the main square, which was interesting, although it didn't have any of my favorite works of his.
We went on a pub crawl there too, which started out with an hr and a half at a place with free beer, wine and vodka and absinthe shots. That night was rather fun, and I learnt a few american collage drinking games, and spent the rest of the night dancing and drinking water, I have no photos of this night, but at least one so far has turned up on Facebook.



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Berlin

Berlin was not as beautiful as other European cities, although it had it's high points, but it was really interesting. its recent turbulent history gave it strong character, and it probably not very strangely, remind me of derry and Belfast.



Brandenburg gate, a bit over 20 years ago this square was no mans land, and anyone here would have been shot.






A bit of the beautiful Berlin. A lot of it had to be rebuilt after ww2 and the fall of the wall.



Something bizarre I saw in my wanders, not sure what it is.



Standing on both sides of the wall, possibly not the best place the this, below was a better choice.






A stretch of the Berlin wall, painted after the fall and preserved.


A rebuilt stretch of the wall, surrounded by walls itself.
A truly creepy west Berlin nuclear bunker, so badly planned anyone stuck down there after a nuclear event would just have died a slower and more painful death than anyone caught directly in the fallout. It was a PR exercise.





The east built (with help from swedish engineers) tv tower now beautifully lit up at night.