We started our tour of Dresden in a nearby palace called Pillnitz. This was the summer palace of Dresden's king August der Starke (Augustus the strong.) King August visited Florence in his youth and tried to make his German kingdom into the new Venice. He positioned his summer palace just up the river from his normal castle in Dresden and had all of his visitors commute to Pilnitz by water.
Our tour leaders treated us like royalty so naturally we commuted to Dresden by ship too.
Pilnitz Palace with Whitney.
Above: Commuting on the Ship.
Above: Dresden's famous Frauen Kirche. Below: inside of the Frauen Kirche.
It was a lovely trip.
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Joanie - I'm loving all your travel-logs. I still can't believe you were so close and we couldn't connect. I wish you guys could have been in Dresden on that Saturday like you originally planned.
And Dresden was bombed in February 1945 - the war didn't end in Europe until May, so the bombing of Dresden was well before the end of the war, not after. It certainly doesn't lessen the tragedy, though. I'm not sure that Dresden will ever return to the way it looked before the war.
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