Dresden's rebuilt Frauenkirche, a symbol of the city which was completely destroyed in WWII. I am not so sure they should have rebuilt the whole thing from scratch. It is very new and shiny and obviously fake right now...
The first of many hilarious photoshoots
What a lovely couple they are!
What a decent, bourgeois, married couple we are!
The Hofkirche
One of the walls of the Schloss (palace)
Another part of the Schloss
The Zwinger, a beautiful baroque complex somehow called 'prison'
The 'terrace of Europe', elevated 14 meters above the Elbe and affords nice views of the Neustadt on the other side and is quite picturesque itself
At the end of the first day of sightseeing, we men felt we had deserved some beers, and Nicole felt she had deserved a lady beer
The inside of the Schloss, all the details pretending to be caryatids, columns and irregular bricks are all painted on. That style was apparently popular in the 1800s and reminded me of Portofino.
Pieter has had enough of me
"Pose for me, darlings". Olaf's favourite phrase.
On top of the Schloss with the Frauenkirche in the distance
The view without the models
Just the two us
On our way back we paid a quick visit to Schloss Pillnitz in the Elbe valley
Clay SuperKitty to the rescue!
Apart from all the architecture, the beer, the food and the history, we also managed to catch the Eurovision Song Contest finale in one of the local gay bars. When Germany won, we expected massive dancing in the streets but were disappointed. Even the Germans at the bar did not care that much. I do believe we were the happiest people in Dresden at that point, and we were already quite sarcastic about it!
Oh, and we say a cherry pit with 185 faces carved into it. Talk about useless!!
Oh, and we say a cherry pit with 185 faces carved into it. Talk about useless!!
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