Sunday Drive to Dresden

We had this past Sunday off from hockey so decided to take a little drive to Dresden, Germany. We were laughing in the car how my parents will take a little drive out to Moose Jaw, or on their bikes out to Lumsden on a Sunday, but nope we drive to another country!

I had wanted to go to Dresden for a little while now to look for shoes. Crazy I know, but they seem to have more shoe stores and bigger sizes in Germany so I’ve been pretty lucky finding shoes there. Well I didn’t exactly plan this out very well as we went on a Sunday and low and behold every retail store was closed. I had no idea as everything stays open in Prague so figured it would be the same there. Well nope, that wasn’t the case. No problem though as Dresden is a beautiful city and there was a ton to see and do while we were there.

The funniest thing happened to us when we first got there. We were looking for a place to park down town and saw a bunch of parkades but decided to look for something on the street that might be cheaper. We found a side street right close to one of the main squares and was about to park in the spot when we saw that there was a no parking sign. Well low and behold this guy gets out of his car and moves it forward a couple of spots so he can park there and us as well. It was hilarious! I guess that’s what you get for not having the no parking sign cemented to the street.

Like I said the city was amazing! I didn’t know this but apparently it was bombed during 1945 by the Allies in WWII. Most of the city has been rebuilt and you can see with some of the churches on the inside a fine line as to what was left standing after the bombings and what has been rebuilt. It was actually really sad to see all the pictures of the city just devastated and rubble everywhere, can’t imagine really. The city is cut into two parts, one part being on the north side of the river and the other on the south. We walked all over the place as you can see from the pictures and stopped for an amazing lunch at a Canadian Steakhouse. Pretty funny to be in Germany and come across a restaurant called Ontario, but we were pretty pumped to find it and each had huge buffalo burgers! I think those burgers were worth the drive!


Jeni and Arielle standing beside our movable parking sign


A statue of Martin Luther by the Frauenkirche


Streets of Dresden from the Bruhlsche Terrace


Arielle and I on the Bruhlsche Terrace


View of Old Town from across the river (would be a better picture on a clear day)


Love the self timer!


A really cool mural


Schloss (Castle)


Arielle and I in the gardens of the castle


The three of us

Frauenkirche at dusk (finally no clouds)