Saturday 26 September 2015

Dresden

After a couple of nights on the world's quietest stellplatz in Tatzschwitz and having done a very long ride round the big lakes near Senftenberg we arrive in Dresden


We are parked on a dedicated stelllatz just 1km along the Elbe river from the Altstadt and are immediately bowled over by the city










The Fürstenzug (Saxon Sovereigns)





The Zwinger Palace











How it looked in 1945


Beautiful Neumarkt area which seemed very tranquil for a large city


No we didn't visit here


The Frauenkirche only recently completely restored



Both Hoffbrahaus and Augustiner breweries have fine establishments here, as we found out...




Very 'Nimble'



'The Fatherland, for Beauty & Honour"



The statue atop the Frauenkirche, paid for by the Brits as part of its restoration 


Seat commemorating the exclusion of Jews from the ramparts overlooking the Elbe












Dresden night skyline (Thanks Google)










Friday 25 September 2015

Dollenchen

Moving south from Berlin in to the Spreewald we again visit Dollenchen and that character Jörg at Gasthaus Stuckatz





After a couple of beers on his terrace earlier I go and order ice creams to go with our BBQ, not expecting them to be delivered like this...


Flags n' all


Jörg's party trick…


Next day we are out cycling amongst the turbines in the woods



We were actually going the wrong way at this moment...



Lunch at the little village of Babben saw Nina consuming this rather odd scrambled egg soup


After a very pleasant 4 day stay and only 10 minutes in to the departure journey we are parked at the services with loss of coolant trouble
The cavalry is called and a very cleanly dressed mechanic turns up and quickly diagnoses a plastic coolant air bleed valve to be the cause of our sweating...


He actually spent more time trying to get Numpty's socket out of the engine bay where I'd dropped it 

Another day, another drama...