I will be travelling solo to Dresden for a week in late October. Any suggestions for safe, interesting day trips?
I'm already planning on Prague. Anything else reccommended?
Posted by
Lawrenceville, Georgia
693 posts
Lee, in case you haven't yet seen it, here is a link to the Dresden website in English. http://www.dresden.de/index_en.php
For a day trip, you could visit the small city of Meissen of porcelain (china) manufacturing fame. Their new website is www.meissen.de. At the bottom of the page is a forwarding message in English to their old website, which has info on the porcelain museum. There are boat tours on the Elbe river but I don't know if they still run in late October.
Posted by
Atlanta
1358 posts
You can take the Dresden S-bahn line down into Saxon Switzerland. There's a national park down there with great hiking (and a beer and brat stand in the middle of the trail), the Bastei, and a neat fortress in Königstein.
Posted by
Calgary
2297 posts
You could do a daytrip to Leipzig and maybe check the schedule for concerts at the Thomaskirche for that. Events are held every Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
http://www.thomaskirche.org/f-Pdf-d-default.html?year=2009&lang=en
If you have an interest in it you could also spend some time tracing Martin Luther's footsteps. Rick Steves did a special on this:
http://www.ricksteves.com/about/pressroom/activism/elca_menu.htm