Dresden - Town of Fountains

in Deutschland ist alles am Sonntag geschlossen. (In English - everything is closed in Germany on Sundays.) Well, not everything, but most things. And so we found ourselves in Dresden, with pretty much everything closed. Our hotel looked over Prager Straser, which seems to be a shopping strip. Our floor to ceiling windows gave us a wonderful view. Not content, we went for a walk.

To discover that Dresden is the city of fountains. We sort of stopped counting after a while. The hotel had given us a map with a walking trail, that took us past all the major sites, and over the bridge and up to more fountains.

There seemed to be a mix of colours on the building, of both the older "drip-down-black" look that is seeming so standard to us now, and a newer, whiter colour. We suspect the newer colour is as a result of rebuilding - Dresden was heavily bombed during world war 2.

Mostly, however, we used Dresden as a sort of rest spot. Our bathroom wasn't walled off, so we had a shower in the middle of the room, with glass surrounding it on 3 sides. Kind of surreal. The water pressure was magnificent however.