We visited Dresden, Germany as a day trip from Prague. The drive took just under two hours, and was very scenic; a portion of the drive was on the Autobahn, which wasn’t really any more exciting than any stretch of interstate highway between Montana and North Dakota, or Kansas and Colorado. We parked blocks from the center of old town, in a parking lot that paved over some great building that had been bombed, but never rebuilt under Communist rule in East Germany. The city center was full of gaping spaces that had been re-purposed as parking lots, or in some cases, simply fenced off pits.
