I had breakfast in a nice cafe, and decided to stay in Dresden another night. It’s warmer here than in Berlin, and I failed to learn before I came here that all the museums are closed on Monday.
The hotel I was at did not have a room at the same rate, but another hotel in the same chain did. The new hotel is closer to the Frauenkirche and further from a construction site. The room is enormous. There’s a kitchen as well, which I won’t be using.
With the museums closed and sunny autumn weather after the fog cleared, it was a day for the outdoors. I walked to the Great Garden, but on the way, encountered a VW factory building the Phaeton, with a display of their electric and hybrid vehicles. I wasn’t going to wait until 3pm for the next guided tour in English, so I just wandered around. Everything could be switched to English anyway.
From the centre of the garden you can hardly see either end. Such an extensive park so close to the centre of a large city.
I took the tram back to the old centre. They have a fabulous tram system. You can buy a ticket at a machine in every tram near the 2nd door from the front, and in 145 of the tram stops.
It was late in the day by now, and getting cold. I went on a 2 hour bus tour of the city and environs, which finished just too late to go back and visit the Frauenkirche dome. Tomorrow
Time for an early dinner, in the cafe I noticed last evening.
More free music in Neumarkt. Amazing number of police and police vehicles about. Almost more police than spectators. No atmosphere of menace, but the crowd was certainly well behaved.
After that I took the 1 hour city night bus tour that was included with the 2 hour afternoon one. The city was very beautiful from the Albertbrucke (bridge), but not possible to photograph at night with an iphone.