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It was my second visit to Germany. The difference is that it was fine planned. It was possible thanks to team work and it was actually team voyage.

As soon as we passed the border of Germany the first thing I noticed was the sky. There were only few clouds and It was sunny. We had the feeling of a free flight,
probably because of no need to attend the University for the next 2 weeks. So
my first photo was a piece of the sky near Dresden.

A small city near Dresden had no impression on us, because we came there late enough, and the only wish was to reach the bathroom, drink some coffee and go to bed.

The second day began in a charming place that bears name Pilnitz. The park of this castle looked like as if it was combed by a
talented gardener. The big and high trees with colorful flower-beds intensified the atmosphere of grandeur. I ran
into a prophesier so close for the first time there, although we were parted
with centuries. We were told a story
about an ancient painter, that decorated the façade of the castle with
illustration of the life of Chinese so truly, although he had never been to
China, and nobody could tell him about it; the voyagers that visited that
country only later were very impressed.

So we left for Bamberg. I would never underestimate little towns. The most massive impression left the local “Altes Rathaus”, because on the one hand it stood to
close to seething waters of Regnitz, on the other hand the front wall of the
building was decorated with fresco, that seemed ordinary only at the first
sight. If you look at the bottom of it, you will see a protuberant leg of an
angel, so that it seems it may come out
from this painting in a few seconds . The lovers of thrillers and romantics would really love
this method of the master. That evening we met
at a local bar drinking some beer
with an old friend of us. Being saturated with the gothic atmosphere of
the town, we seemed to us middle-aged
knights and the table looked as if it was round, probably thanks to what we
drank, although they used to drink something
stronger than that. But the very
good quality of “Rauchbier” has to be mentioned separately.

The next town was the residence of Goethe, who shared it with Gullliver, because only he could leave his enormous chair in the small
road - ”You can have a rest, if you are able to sit down ”- not very
good slogan for his firm. I can’t remember the quantity of beds that Goethe
broke with his wife, too much I think for one family. Nevertheless we also can
consider him as a fighter for wealthy way of life, because only Heine was
permitted to smoke at his place, but abnormal high carriage in garage could
shake this opinion.

It comes to an end with calm towns. We went to Dresden. We were deafen with the beauty of
innumerable masterpieces
collected in one place “Dresdener Gemaeldegalerie”.

The impression of Sans Souci in Potsdam was profanated with a story about the luck
of toilet paper and kings receptions, we couldn’t listen to it without making a
wry faces.

Berlin was almost empty, we had no opinion what happened…

I had never an idea that people could have such an attitude to their history, for most of them negative, I mean the wall that
separated this nation for a few decades – they left the line from brick on the
road through places where it stood.

We had much free time here. So we walked to the center of the city passing by the worldwide known sightseeings. The only human
being we met on our way was a homeless person. It seems they are similar
anywhere in the world. Only next to Brandenburger Tor we saw a big column of
roller-skaters and police officers, it
was really exciting to watch this kind of competition… On our way home to the
hotel we were frightened: Turkish football fans celebrated the victory of their
national team swinging a bus with the fans sitting in it. It was noisy as we
were at the stadium .

The whole voyage seemed to me deafening and very amazing and some piquant details can unite any nations in the world.