One of the things I try to do when I reach a new city to mark the start of a new series of pictures and their location is to take a picture of something that has the place name included in it. Here, for example, is the picture that marked the start of my Dresden photos.
On the recommendation of many, we stopped in Dresden on our way from Berlin to Prague (about a 4 hour drive). I’ll add more detail about this palace, the Zwicker, when I get a chance but it was very large and, as you can see from the weather, it was a great day for touring this impressive monument. It was also home to a museum featuring the Dresden porcelain dolls that is one of the things its famous.
In her own way, this Dresden street vendor was an artist, carving vegetables into all kinds of different shapes and creating a very appealing booth in the process.
Another thing Dresden is famous is having parts of it be more or less bombed flat during world War II. This building was either rebuilt or reconstructed after World War II. The picture doesn’t do justice to its size – it was very large.
Not all Dresden was bombed flat but I imagine much of its was affected by the dust and fallout from bombing. This building shows the contrast between either new or reconstructed buildings and the colour of stone affected by bomb fallout.
Dresden was definitely a stop on the tour bus itinerary and the old town area where we toured was swarming with tourists of all nations (including Canada, we even saw an Ontario Restaurant), but it had a nice ambience, and on a nice warm day like we had, was a great place to walk around and enjoy the street musicians.
Its hard to call someone that is playing a grand piano a ’street musician’ but that is technically what this very accomplished musician was. He played very accomplished versions of both classical music and some jazz standards.
There were other types of street performers that were very used to having their pictures taken but not for free. In this picture, one of them is pointing at me and about to demand that I add 1 Euro to their collection.
