Day 1 in Dresden

Jo and me took the City Night Train (19€) from Stuttgart to Dresden. We arrived in Dresden at around 8:30 am, read the map, and roughly decided our path in the city. We visited first the VW factory. It is not really a tourist attraction, we hesitated but we went in. No one really bothered to welcome these two crazy little Asians. We enquired at the reception and was told there was a short tour which we might join if we understand German. We had to ask the tour guide to join the tour. I still remember his response was: 'Die Gaderobe ist dahinten. *Wir warten nicht so lange*'. This sounds sooooo strange to me. :p VW Fabrik und die Frauen Kirche Next, we visited the Frauen Kirche. Paid 5€ with nothing much to see I would say. [Later I was told in Berlin, this church is newly renovated. So this church is what my mother saw on TV. No wonder it's soooo expensive]. We had some self-made 飯團 as lunch at the Bruehlsche Terrasse. It was simply damn cold... Then we cross the bridge to the Neustadt. Visited the Markthalle and the Drei-Konigs-Kirche. Baroque buildings in Dresden and the frozen Elbe We then crossed another bridge and visited the Zwinger. The river Elbe was frozen with floating ice. The fountain in Zwinger had no water and the grasses were gone. How will it look like in Summer? :p Zwinger und Aletto At night we took another train to Berlin. We got off at Friedrichstrasse, walked some 2000m to the Jungenhotel (Aletto, 22.5€ x 3 for 4 nights, Dopplezimmer). It was a longer way than it looks on the map. We booked a double zimmer, but was given a room for 6. If we knew it earlier, we would invite more people to join our trip.