DRESDEN: NOT SWITZERLAND SAXONY

If you desire to get out of town and see the country, this is a nice day trip. We took the train to an area they refer to as Not Switzerland Saxony where they have rock formations out of sandstone which reminded me of Sedona but surrounded by verdant forests instead of desert.

When we got back into town, we visited their main concert hall, the Palace of Culture, which was built under the communists and was surprisingly beautiful in a mid-century modern way. The murals inside screamed proletariat in a very progressive way, especially when it came to promoting equality for women in the various professions. They also had a clever way of having a bank of bathrooms as individual rooms along one wall, not male or female, so guess what, first come, first serve.