Dresden is lovely and will easily keep me amused for four days, I reckon. Especially if I stop hanging about in cafes and start doing something constructive. Today I have been getting my bearings, which means lots of wandering about. I was in the Frauenkirche, the one they left in ruins during DDR times and recently reconstructed. It's beautiful.
Yesterday I had a very civilised rail journey, changing at the very
swanky station in Leipzig. The flat is great. It's out of town a bit, but not much, and I can walk into town via the Elbe Cycle path. It has lots of room, and a cute wee balcony on which I had breakfast this morning, after an indulgent lie-in.After arriving last night I had to pop out to the big Lidl at the station for some groceries. Fun, trying to work out what everything was again. Have got some strange teabags and could only get UHT milk (yuk.) Got to find the German equivalent of M&S for ready meals. Or eat out!
Meanwhile, I have a great book on the go. I have a strange fascination for crazy rich people from the past, and I'm enjoying "The Bolter" by Frances Osborne. (When I can put aside my literary and political pretensions, as it was on the R+J list and is by the wife of George "Gideon - yah" Osborne.) It's about her scandalous great granny, and I spent half an hour online in here trying to find out about a house which features in the book called Kildonan House in Barrhill, Ayrshire. Got to go a trip there when I'm home - might be good for a walk!
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