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UNESCO World Heritage Site #163: Dresden Elbe Valley
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 19 December 2011
From the World Heritage inscription: The 18th- and 19th-century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley extends some 18 km along the river from Übigau Palace and Ostragehege fields in the north-west to the Pillnitz Palace and the Elbe River Island in the south-east. It features low meadows, and is crowned by the Pillnitz Palace and [...]
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Leipzig on the Menu
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 19 June 2011
I'm now in Leipzig, Germany, the city in which the communist government of East Germany first crumbled under the weight of public demonstrations in 1989.However, it's not Leipzig's dramatic political history that's on my mind, but its food. It turns out that Leipzig is a haven for those centuries-old local specialties that pop up on Central European menus as you travel around. Join me for a meal (taken across a few different restaurants) and I'll show you what I mean...First course
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Quirky Dresden
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 16 June 2011
I don't know quite what I expected from Dresden, Germany, which I'm visiting as a short side-trip from my Lonely Planet gig in Poland.I knew it had been burnt to the ground by a massive British and American bombing campaign very late in World War II, a dark episode believed by many to constitute a war crime. And I knew after that it was part of the Deutsche Democratic Republic (aka East Germany) for nearly a half-century after that.
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Lady in Dresden
Blog: A Lady in London - 24 March 2011
The New York Times is stalking me. It must be. At least the travel section, anyway. Why else would it always publish an article or a “top places to visit this year” list featuring a place to which I just booked a trip? First it happened with Namibia. Then Sri Lanka. Then Santiago. And finally [...]
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A Short Visit to Switzerland
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 8 July 2010
After almost a week of pounding the pavement of various German cities, we needed a nature break. Southeast of Dresden is Sächsische Schweiz, (Saxon Switzerland), a national park along the Elbe River. Known for its rock formations, the park is popular with everyone from your average tourist to avid rock climbers. Despite the projected 95 [...]
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Dresden
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 7 July 2010
Our stop in Dresden really didn’t have much to do with beer. For years, I have been fascinated by the city and its resurrection from the fire-bombing by Allied planes February 1945. It is estimated that 25,000 civilians died in the raids and subsequent firestorm. My recent interest stemmed from our first visit to Munich [...]
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Anything Gose
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 2 July 2010
I’m pretty good at coming up with brilliant ideas. Recently, one of my best ideas was in planning our train trip from Berlin to Dresden. I noticed that one of the intermediate stations was Leipzig, which I remembered was home to one of the few Gose breweries in the world. Realizing that this was a [...]
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