Dresden, lost city of wonder (Dresden)

Member Name: IanPaterson

Product:	Dresden
Date:	14/08/00 (33 review reads)
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Advantages: To many to list

Disadvantages: Still in 1940's

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 Palace and must rival in the architecture and interiors.

I sat in the city square, eating at the recently opened McDonalds looking ont a square with a communist mosaic, typical design, man digging with spade while woman in foreground looks into distance with hoe on shoulder digging in fields covered in netting. I felt a bit strange to say the least.

Beautiful city that must be visited if you go to Germany.

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