Dresden; Sunday, 21 July, 2013

Woken early by a blazing sun shining through the floor to ceiling windows in my hotel room, I had a large breakfast and then headed down to the centre of town.

First stop was Teatreplatz to pick up the hop-on-hop-off tour bus, to take in the sights of Dresden from the comfort of a moving vehicle with no windows, which on a day like this with the sun beating down, proved to be a wise move.

After a spot of late lunch in a beergarten overlooking the Elbe I headed out to the Großer Garten to have a wander around that, taking in the park railway that runs round much of the park.

I headed back into town in the early evening to grab some dinner before having another wander through the Altstadt and then picking up a late evening bus to take the tour of the city in the stunning sunset.

By the time I got back to Theatreplatz it was gone 10pm so I grabbed a late night ice-cream as desert and then headed back to the hotel to get some sleep.