Dresden

Lovely city in parts... Dog rough in others.... I lived in Dresden for 6 months as part of a university course. I chose it as a destination because I wanted to see whether the East of Germany was still backward and communist. Not so I was happy to find. Ok the people look a little strange but then again so do many of the people round here in Glossop. Sorry Glossopians. Back to Dresden. The first thing to note about Dresden is that a combination of 529 American and British bombers obliterated the city during the final throes of the Second World War causing around 35,000 casualties. An area of 15 square kilometres of the city was set ablaze. This ...  Read the complete review

Enroute back from Poland, I visited some friends in West Germany and drove through East Germany to Berlin about 6 months after the Berlin wall came down. I stopped in Dresden for food and fuel and took a walk around what was a communist city only a few months before. Dresden was heavily incendiary bombed in the second world war by Lancaster bombers. The city looked almost exactly as it did when it was bombed. Black, half demolished buildings stuck out of the skyline. If it was in black and white you would not have known the difference. There is a fantastic palace and staely home you can visit and wander around that is on al oarger scale than Buckingham ...  Read the complete review