On a warm afternoon, we walked into an idyllic surrounding of a quaint vineyard in Dresden. Pillnitz runs by Klaus Zimmerling and his polish artist wife Malgorzata Chodakowska. Vineyards and wine tasting tours are quite common in this part of the world. Most big vineyards having a tour brochure that for a fee takes you […]

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Spinnerei or Spinning mills were set up and that brought skilled workers to this area and the area became a living community around these spinning mills. Gradually it became a complete ecosystem with schools and entertainment facilities. However, by the end of the 20th CE, the mills closed down and the huge buildings with large […]

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The word for Dresden is re-creating. The city has been re-created, as it existed before it was bombed during the Second World War. As if they wanted to go even back in time. They created a Panometer Dresden – a giant painting inside an out-of-use but giant cylindrical Gasometer. They engaged Austrian artist Yadegar Assisi […]

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Leipzig is a small city in the state of Saxony in Germany, less than a couple of hours by road from Berlin. It is a city known for its musicians over the ages with museums and music festivals dedicated to them around the year. To me, this was the first that the whole city is […]

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Saxon Switzerland is a hilly area in the southeast of the city of Dresden, bordering the neighboring Czech Republic. Here in the highlands, there are tall sandstone Bastei Rocks in light ash grey color. Making it a favorite place for hikers and climbers with thousand-odd peaks to be conquered. Bastei Rocks of Saxon Switzerland National […]

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The story behind Meissen Porcelain is like this. They say that new developments depend on crazy and irrational. This story will only re-enforce that. Augustus the Strong, the ruler of Saxony was crazy about collecting oriental porcelain. He would go to any extent to buy expensive pieces of Chinese porcelain. One of the legends says […]

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The city of Dresden likes to call itself the city of Augustus the Strong – it’s the most famous king who ruled in early 18th CE. His stories are scattered all around the city even today, on its walls as murals, in its squares as statues, in its gardens and monuments that he had built […]

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Our itinerary said a visit to the Volkswagen Transparent factory on the last day. And on the first day, we did see a glass and steel structure from the car. In my mind, it was just another visit to a manufacturing facility and it would be sophisticated was a set expectation. I did no reading […]

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This is the first time I set foot on German soil though I had transited many times through Frankfurt airport, thanks to the State of Saxony that invited me to visit it. As the ritual goes sharing my first impressions of Germany, Saxony, and Dresden. First Impressions of Germany trip 1. Germans work with clockwork punctuality. […]

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