Dresden

Hey everybody,

Sorry for the mega blog update the other day, and the state of it, but i couldn’t see what was being written and was having problems changing things. I have now gone back through and fixed up a couple of typos.

(hmmmmm…. Edit…. this is rather long too….) sorry :-0

Bascially we are in Dresden, just south of Berlin. If anyone is coming to Germany, then i really really suggest a 3-4 day stop over here. We have had a day and it isn’t long enough.

The weather has been beautiful, sunny and bright, warm but not toooooooo hot. The city is gorgeous to say the least, despite the fact that we blew it to smitherines during 1945 !! 85% of the city burnt to the ground or was destroyed by the bomb blasts. Including all the MEDIEVAL city and much of the surrounding area. As Dresden fell into communist control after the war, much of the bombed out buildings remained as rubble until very recently when the have started to uncover and rebuild. As a monument the Prodestant church was rebuild out of the burnt and broken stones. The church fell to the ground after the blasts of bombs nearby weakened it’s structure and the fire had cracked the sandstone. The left it for years, and then carefully measured and scanned each piece of stone, put them into a computer program, and then put each stone back where it was. Where there was no stone, they bought a new one. Amazing. It was only finished in the late 1990’s. many of the other buildings have been restored and look like they have stood for a thousand years ! Some that have been rebuilt in the past 5 years still look a little modern but are much better than the 1970’s period of building that are there.

We have been sooooo surprised at the cost of beer !! sOOOOOOO CHEAP !!!
1.30 buys you ½ a litre of beer in a cheap restaurant, and 1.90- 2-50 in a more expensive one. Not very expensive even by Australian standards.

Today we went on a tour of the city (photos being posted in next post.) It was a great day. The only problem we have faced is the American tourists ! Last night we had one in our room, and i though well i wonder if Chris or I will smack him in the face first !

He comes in when the German girl is watching a movie and stands in front of the tele screeching his mouth of to chris about his trip (ok thats fine) but he was soooooo loud, every time she turned up the tv, he talked louder to a very unentheusiastic audience. I was reading and Chris was using the computer. Then he asked what Chris did, and chris explained. Then he became an expert on cellular biology when he didn’t even know the function of DNA. Even i with my schoolgirl biology knew he was talking out of his arse.

THEN he was babling on about how germans are all overweight (he was fat and ugly) and said that if he loved the food in germany and if he lived here he would be very fat. ! (snorks snorks as he was HUGE) Not underexagerated by the fact that he came out of the shower wearing the grand total of a pair of boxer shorts ! No top ! all that white flab, i couldn’t even look in the room.

I thoink Chris was about to have a go at him when he started to talk about how good at martial arts he is and how he can smack through 5 boards at least (with his bare hands.) He didn’t look as if he could smack through butter ! THEN he started to do the most pathetic « high-ya » chop kick and then stretch his legs USING MY BED AS HIS BENCH never mind that he could barly lift his leg the foot or two to the rail of my bed. Remember what he was wearing how fat he was and that i was in bed reading. Such an athlete !!

AMERICAN STORY TWO (the most funny of all of them so far) please skip if you have little time to read….but it was sooo funny to watch this happen…

Denmark – the home of people who speak English as a second language. EVERYONE speaks english and very good english ! We were in a que at (so embarrasing) hungry jacks, (we were desperate ok !!) It was full of english speaking tourists. I was in the que infront of an american couple about my age. The girl started whispering to the boyfriend, « i can do this if you want » he replies « are you sure you can handle it, i can do it if you want, » « no no she replies i’m happy to »

Oh i thought, she is going to try and speak in Danish ! Brave !

I go up to the counter and order my food, talking to a young boy who could have been american his english was THAT good ! I couldn’t tell if he was a non-native speaker. All goes well and i’m waiting for my food when the american girl goes up to the counter behind me and starts talking to the boy.

She got right up in his face and said in the loudest, slowest voice imaginable « DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH, WE (pointing to her and boy) WANT TO EAT (pointing to her mouth) SOME BURGERS »

The boy (bless) held his composure VERY well which is more than can be said for the other two servers who ran behind the machines and laughed and laughed. The rest of the customers just stood in shock as she didn’t know she had done anything wrong.

The boy of course responded in perfect English despite the fact that she ordered her food in the same manner.

I don’t get it, they looked intelligent enough !

FUNNY STORY THREE ( The next most funny )

Versailles – Toilets…
We were in the que for the toilets. An English speaking woman came out of the middle cubical and went to wash her hands. An americal woman went into the middle toilet after her. The American woman closed the door and let out a scream and came running out pulling a disgusted face. (meanwhile the woman who had just been in there turns around going …oh my god, what have i left in there…) The American says to everyone, not to use that toilet and she will wait. Someone asks what was wrong (we were epecting poo, vomit, sanitary, pad….. ) but no there was only a thin toilet seat ! HUH ! she proceeded to try each toilet in there, (despite the fact that we kept saying they would all be the same,) before she left (without going in THOSE toilets) telling her friend about the disgusting state of toilets in France and how much better they were in america !


BACK TO DRESDEN !!!

We are leaving tomorrow morning and going to Prague, so i will hopefully be able to update a bit better from there. Enjoy the photos !

Hope you are all having fun in Australia, We want to stay in Germany !


byeeeee