Dresden, Germany

Friday, 8 August 2006

Dresden deserves its title of "Florence of the North". The newly-rebuilt Frauenkirche (levelled by the Allied bombing at the end of WWII) is very pretty; although, with the amount of pink paint and gold trimmings in the interior, it looks and smells like a show-church for an exciting new first-time buyers' development within an easy 4 hour commute of Dublin! We have an early leader in the Least Helpful Stranger of the Trip: wanting to get a rosemantic photo of the two of us in front of some Baroque palace, we asked a local gent whether he would be so nice as to photograph us - "I simply cannot do that" he fumed and marched away, leaving us in the dark as to why he couldn't. Answers on a postcard please...

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