[Leica] IMG: Postcards from Dresden

[joseph at yao.com (Joseph Yao)]

Geoff,

Thank you for sharing your Dresden photos.

The hotel is Taschenbergpalais Kempinski, originally built by August the
Strong for his mistress in the early 18th century.  I stayed there in July
2007 when I went to collect my new car in Leipzig.  My trip also took me to
my favourite watch makers in the Saxony town of Glashutte, a 45-min drive
from Dresden.  I plan to sign up for the watch making course there next
summer.

Didn't visit Leica in Solms on that occasion, as the CEO at the time was
less than hospitable.

Thanks again,

Joseph


On 6/24/09 10:21 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> My Dresden gallery is here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/g/d/
> We arrived the day prior to President Obama's overnight stay. The security
> for his Germany visit was reported to cost 13,000,000 Euros.
> We saw at least half of that in the form of Polizei in endless streams on
> the autobahn into Dresden.
> I started to photograph some of the security personnel, when it occurred to
> me that it may not be entirely sensible to disrupt my holiday plans with an
> unsceduled chat in some basement.
> 
> Dresden itself was very substantiall rebuilt and this is ingoing. In major
> buildings you can see the patchwork effect of new stone with the salvaged
> oxidised stone from the original structures.
> A very striking and interesting city.