Well i made it to Dresden and have just spent the last 3 hours wandering around and getting a feel for it. Magic!! A really gorgeous city. Reminds me a bit of Prague without the Disney and feeling that it has been taken over for tourism. It’s early days but I just loved it this afternoon despite the rain and gloom and the descent of darkness so early. I’ve started to get my bearings which is good because there is a sense of urgency with only 5 days after today to get to see and do all I want to see and do. I found the Tourist Office (after a few wrong turns) and they were incredibly nice and helpful so I have my map, my information and ticket for the Museum so I’m off and running.
I was up and at it fairly efficiently this morning to finish packing, cleaning up and getting myself onto the crowded bus with my 2 cases. Got to the Hauptbahnhof OK, had a bit of a wait so off to the Einstein’s there for my coffee. The train was delayed and getting onto the train is always a challenge. In Italy you can fairly much rely on someone helping you lift your cases up but not so in Germany. But no worries and the guy in the carriage heaved them up to the luggage racks for me (but he was Spanish!!!!…it’s those latinos, you have to love em when you’re not building fences). Anyway all good. I was met at the station by the mother (Jana) of the Airbnb woman which was enormously good of her and a huge help it has to be said.
So that’s my day. There is apparently a restaurant just near here that Jana told me about so for the first time in ages I may venture out at night and test it out. So off I go. I’ll let you know tomorrow if I survive walking the dark streets alone!!