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Meissen, the porcelain capital of Germany.

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Getting from Halle to Meissen, our next destination, wasn't so easy. We got mixed up on trains and had to make a two-hour stopover in... Beucha (Boy-ka), a little town literally in the middle of nowhere. Carolyn checks out the train station. Nice graffiti on the train station. This is Beucha on the other side of the train station. We ended up here because we missed our original train, then got on a wrong train, then took a nap, ended up at another tiny town called Brandis, where the train driver took pity on us and explained how to get to Meissen ... which brought us to Beucha. A two hour stopover here at Beucha, then on a very local train for another two hours of start and stop riding to Meissen. But we finally made it there... We arrived in Meissen, got settled into our hotel and finally got out to look around as the sun was going down. This is a veiw of the restaurant Vincenz Richter. Here's the Market Place in Meissen. The Rathaus (town hall) is on the left. Another view of the Market Place and the restaurant where we ate our first evening. Looking up Burgstrasse to the towers of the cathedral. The next mornin we see the towers of the cathedral again, only this time through an alley near the hotel. The photo is really of the toys hanging above the alley. You could pull cables on the left wall that would raise and lower where the The Market Place by day with the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) in the background. Another view of the Market Place and the Church of Our Lady. Burgstrasse (Castle Street) by day with the twin spires of the cathedral above. The stairs leading up to the cathedral and castle. Carolyn's looking a bit tired already. More and more stairs. But the sign on the overhead walkway keeps me going: Finally at the top! The Meissen Cathedral. The castle, Albrechtsburg, is to the left. A veiw of the building on the hill surrounding the cathedral and castle. One of the reasons we came to the cathedral was to hear this men's choir give a half-hour concert. The cathedral's altar (after the concert was over). The pulpit of the cathedral. A close up view of the pulpit. A closer view of the altar. Beautiful stained glass windows above the high altar.
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