Dresden

Church

Speed Limit

Today we visited Dresden, a city on the Elba River about an hour east of  Leipzig, which is the capital of Saxony.  First, we saw the Frauenkirche church that had been rebuilt from the bomb damage during the second world war in the same baroque style that the rest of the city had been before the war.  Most of the city was rebuilt after the war in the socialist style (where all the buildings are monotone with rows of similar, small windows) because East Germany was under communist rule.  Fortunately, the center of town was rebuilt in the beautiful baroque style.  Then, we saw an art museum, which is currently being restored.  Part of the outside is still covered in black soot from when East Germany burned coal for heat.

We drove from Leipzig to Dresden on the Autobahn, where there is no speed limit, and reached 204 km/h (127 m/h) in my mom's friend's Mercedes.  Germany is the only country left in the world that has some roads ohne geschwindgkeitsbegrenzung -- without a speed limit.