bastei = top 1 destination in saxon switzerland

bastei is the no. 1 sightseeing destination in saxon switzerland. at least according google and its no. 1 search hit from trip advisor. our hosts also said bastei was the most important thing to see. even the parking place was really full on that rainy and untypical day for hiking: silvester 2017.

if you asked me or the best of all wives, we liked our first trip to falkenstein and schrammsteine rocks much better. not only because there were much fewer folks underway, we liked over stay and the view from the top of the schrammstein-plateau soooo much.

anyway, enjoy few pictures from bastei with the bastei bridge and the remaining of the medieval castle neurathen.

baste bridge (bastei-brücke)

elbe river in saxony (sachsen)

 castle neurathen (felsenburg neurathen)

beautiful sandstone rocks ...

good-bye, beautiful bastei bridge

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castle pillnitz + dresden + pirna

the castle pillnitz at the elbe river and the south-eastern part of the city of dresden was the agenda for this day with my dresden native colleague at our trip to saxony (sachsen)

the highlights? palace pillnitz, dresden-loschwitz (schillerplatz, körnerplatz), the bridge das blaue wunder which did not explode in WWII, TV tower, ...

castle pillnitz

 dresden

das blaue wunder

 schillerplatz

körnerplatz

dresden - loschwitz

 pirna, a city in the middle between dresden and bad schandau

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if you want to, just jump back few weeks, we have been to dresden in early november too and joined the night life and visited the old city center.

dresden, saxony

on our way back from lodz, we have spent 1 night and 1 day in dresden.

i liked most our boat hotel (= botel) pöppelmann on the elbe river and also the many free parking places in front of it. even if the hotel was quite simple, cheap and had a flair of a youth hostel. actually, for me it is  really romantic to sleep on a boat as we did in yangon too :-). also the location was really, really good as it was close to both, the hotspot at night and the city center next morning.
my daughters liked better our tour through the party district neustadt and would love to visit the museum of the DDR, which my wife + me didn't like to see yet as our memories at socialism are still present enough :-). 

well, dresden remembered me somehow on prague, but it was not that nice. especially a bridge of the category of prague's charles bridge was badly missing, if you asked me.

enjoy few pictures from the alaunstrasse (neustadt), graffitis and also the classical sightseeing highlights like semperoper, zwinger, kathedrale - hofkirche, frauenkirche, castle / schloss, ...

 botel pöppelmann

alaunstr, neustadt

 

DDR museum

 

 

 zwinger

semperoper

 castle

 kathedrale - hofkirche

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