Our pension was so quiet that we thought we were the only guests. We didn’t see anyone last night when we checked in or after we returned from dinner.  Each of these rooms is uniquely decorated and have names on the doors as well as numbers.  Ours is the “Amazonas”.

The wall decor is very tropical.  The room itself is at least 3, maybe 4 times larger than our tiny Amsterdam room!

It has a cooler downstairs that is basically an honour bar.  2 Euros for a beer.

We were astonished when we went down for breakfast that there were at least 20 other people there.  The breakfast buffet was sumptuous to say the least.  Along with the regular buffet items, it had scrambled and fried eggs, sausages, bacon and bacon wrapped dates (interesting).  They also had boiled eggs.  We have seen boiled eggs in other places.  Already cooked in a bowl or basket.  Stu saw the whole eggs and plopped one in an egg cup and took it back to our table.  When he was ready to eat it he started to crack it with his knife.  Goo started oozing out of the egg that was now obviously still raw.  He decided to hide with his napkin.  The woman organizing the breakfast somehow figured out what he had done (BUSTED!) and took him up to train him in the art of soft cooking an egg.  She showed him the egg cooking appliance and set the timer for the appropriate time.  Being impatient he went to check on his egg.  A lady guest sitting at the table next to us said “it should be OK”, so he started to retrieve it.  The Breakfast Lady says “did it ring??”,  Stu says “No”,  Breakfast Lady “It isn’t done yet!!  4 minutes”.  Giggles from the table next to us, he sits back down ruing his choice of egg!  Finally it rings and the egg is finally done.  Stu consumes and enjoys.  🙂

We get into our car and head off to Dresden.  We have a hotel near the train station and train tickets to Prague tomorrow.

The rain is lighter today and we are on the main road A4 to Dresden.  Much more pleasant than yesterday.

We are driving in the middle or right lane of the Autobahn.  Doing 120 K/hr we are passed with “peeyowwwww” by a whole list of German cars, BMWs, Audis, Mercedez, Porsches and Opels.

I am trying to get them on video and giggling with every one that leaves us in their dust even though we are going up to 135 k/hr!

Just west of a city named Jena we go through a 3K tunnel.  That is followed by a small 600M one.  It is an odd feeling driving that far underground.

After arriving into Dresden and finding our hotel, we drop our bags and then head out to find the Budget office to drop off our car.

Mission accomplished we walk to the train station to get our bearings for tomorrow and back to our hotel.

Checked places in Prague to stay.  We had a couple of recommendations from friends.  We checked them out, some over 340 Euros/night.  We recall that we are in high season and prices are obviously much higher.  I check HRS.com and find a place called Anyday Appartments.  HRS has it for 81 Euros as I have now registered my company to get the “Business Tariff”.  Much better.  I decide to check Trivago and find it for 70 Euros!!  It pays to check around!