recently went on a little weekend trip to a couple german cities. I traveled with a friend of mine from northeastern. leaving on thurs we took a drain to dresden. by the time we got there it was about 11pm ish…starving we were glad to find a resteraunt open. I got a salmon/penne/alfredo dish. the meal hit the spot. and we walked to our hostel. walking from the altstadt (old city) to the neustadt ( new city) where out hostel was very interesting. the new city is completely young hip grungy and alternative. we dropped our stuff in the hostel, and went out to explore a little. we visited one bar then stopped at a hooka bar on the way home. the place was filled with a bunch of middleastern guys singing in arabic. it made for a nice ambiance. the next morning we woke up early to visit all the sites. top site was the castle/ museum grounds. in dresden we bumped into an other northeastern student who was traveling. we didnt know her but she noticed the NU rigby jacket my friend was wearing. we gabbed a quick mexican meal with her then we went to leipzig. we checked into our hostel in leipzig and went out again. had a great meal and comforting bottle of wine. we played a quick game of pool then slept. the next morning we were off to weimar. there we visited goethe and schillings houses as well as the bauhaus musem. museum wasnt great, it was tiny and uninformative. the goethe and schilling houeses were touristed out. but we enjoyed some nice chinese food on the same street some of the greatest literary masters of germany walked on. we left wiemar that night for nuremberg. arriving in a new city again at night. we stayed in the let em’ sleep hostel. i liked this hostel with its community kitchen, lounge area and free internet. we went out and had a great time, and sung simon and garfunkels mrs. robinson at a karioke bar. we grabbed a quick pizza in a in a resteraunt cleverly named cafe bar celona. on the way out it started to rain really bad so we borrowed an umberlla on the way out. we paid it forward by leaving in the hostel it was very robin hoodish’. the next morning we arouse early again for some more site seeing. we started at the german history museum. it was a nice museum with a ton of information. we walked to the far edge of the town where there was a huge castle. this was really incredible. the building was for the most part origianlly intact and was extremely pretty. overall nurember was a great city and extremelly nice. it seems to have withstood the bombings pretty well and u can really see the historical beauty. however dresden was probably my fav city on this trip. we hoped back on the train and arrived back in reutlingen. yet another great weekend.