Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Goodbye Poland, Hello Germany and Czech Republic

to get the right answers, ask the right questions to the right people.
Lisa, the lovely German couch host we met in Görlitz let us have her whole apartment while she went to her boyfriend's.  She brought us around the sparsely populated town of elderly people to have a nice German dinner at the Kartoffel Restaurant.  I had pork leg with potatoes, which is way too much for me.

Görlitz is a nice city in the former Eat Germant with most buildings restorated.  Most of its inhabitants are pensioners since there is little industry in the city.  The Polish half, Zgorgelec was split apart after WW2 when the borders were redrawn by the Allied powers.  If you cross the bridge over the Oder Neiße that separates the two to the Polish part, you find cheaper food and entertainment.

We stayed 2 nights in Görlitz to properly see the city from Landskron hill.  There is a restaurant and a small tower on the summit where one can oversee the city, its surrounding farms and the far away Karkonosze mountain ranges.