Category Archives: Allgemein
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Brunching in Dresden
What do Dresdeners do on bad weather weekends? – They breakfas all day! To be more precise: they brunch. Not only the Neustadt, but also other Dresden city quarters offer a lot of places for the weekendish meet-and-greet buffet. Even the Dresden student union offered a student’s Sunday brunch with …
Reopening: Dresden Giant’s Hall
Dresden’s city center has been a construction site for decades now because World War II has left deep scars in the cityscape. Like no other building the Dresdeners have taken the castle to their hearts, except for the Frauenkirche, of course. Where electors and kings used to reside a unique …
Friday is free-ticket-day
Wintertime is training time
Explosive leftovers
Hard to believe, but almost 70 years after World War II Dresden has leftovers from the bombing of February 1945. Just this week another aerial bomb has been discovered in the ground when construction work was going on in the Pirnaische Vorstadt. 2500 people had to be evacuated because of …
How to take a guided walk in the freezing cold
wagner. Wagner. WAGNER!
Not everyone is a fan of annual mottos – just like last year, when I was continually running into the Prussian King Frederick the Great who happened to celebrate his 100th anniversary: potatoes here, his flute playing there, Potsdam and Prussia everywhere! What the radio stations wouldn’t mention, was Fritzen’s …