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 …

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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 …

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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  …

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