Dresden Wrap-Up

So on the weekend I was in Dresden. It was pretty rad.

Kendall and I took the train down - after a small adventure on the way to the train station, that is! We sat on the train for a long time, where I enjoyed my first ever slice of pumpkin pie (left over from Kendalls thanksgiving feast). I'm still a little weirded out by sweet pumpkin, but it wasn't bad. We had a half hour stop in Leipzig and we walked around and bought fruit and stuff and then got on the train to Dresden.



Interesting side note: On both of our trains (yes, including the one that left at 9:36am) were groups of people drinking sekt. Actually, on the first train they were also doing shots. Fun times!

Anywho, so we got to Dresden, took a roundabout way to the hostel, checked in and decided to go for a walk while we waited for Max to arrive (Max's boss is stupid and made him work Saturday so he drove down later).

We walked down the street, discovered an AMAZING TEA SHOP, walked a little further, then both decided we wanted to go in. So we walked back and looked at the menu in the window, agreed that we wanted to go in, I actually started opening the door and then my phone rang. "I'll be there in 5 minutes, we're meeting at the hostel, right?" Thanks Max. We went to the hostel and waited, then when Max was checked in we dragged him right back to England England (the tea shop) and Kendall and I had 'Tea For Two' (we got NINE cups of tea out of this pot)and drank out of Royal Albert tea cups :)

Then we went walkies and saw lots of Christmas Markets. That's the big thing here - Christmas Markets. Germans LOOOOOOOOVE Christmas! ANyway, that's about the theme of the whole weekend. We walked around the city and looked at Christmas markets. But I'll tell some other highlights too.

Kendall and I tried our first ever Glühwein - mulled wine popular at this time of year - and it was amazingly delicious!

We had cocktails at the hostel bar - not the most amazing cocktails in the world but not so bad either.

Ate breakfast at the hostel.

EXCITING/HILARIOUS EVENT:

We were at the main Christmas market in Dresden and a TV crew spotted us and started interviewing us - how do you like the market and so on, then they asked where we come from (I was the one doing most of the talking) and I said that I'm Aussie, Max is from Hannover and Kendall is from America. After they finished interviewing us (in German), they said to Kendall (in English) "You speak English, come here we'll do another one in English" and dragged her off to do an interview in English. At this point Max and I looked at each other, and started laughing. In case you were wondering, apparently we don't speak English in Australia. I still can't believe that I wasn't asked to do a TV interview in English!

Anywho, then we walked some more and then we said goodbye to Max and got on our train home. And that was Dresden.