This has been a fairly enjoyable weekend, despite the mostly gray, rainy weather. The one annoying thing that happened was that the memory upgrade I ordered for my computer arrived Saturday per Nachnahme (COD), when I thought it was coming per Rechnung, and I didn’t have the cash to pay, so I need to go to the post office Monday to pick it up. It seems that Brandenburg postal carriers do not yet have the technology to accept payment by card, although, the postal worker explained to us, the postal workers in all the other states in Germany can. He seemed to be very annoyed by this. We finished off Saturday by taking a long walk with Charlie through Park Babelsberg.
Today was spontaneous roadtrip day, so we struck out and ended up in Moritzburg, where we took a stroll around the Schloss. There was a dog show going on in the gardens and the dogs all laughed at Charlie because they didn’t need leashes and Charlie has to wear a completely silly looking Halti to keep him from pulling our arms out of their sockets. People kept walking by saying, “Arme Hund!” (“Poor Dog!”).
After Moritzburg, we headed 7 km further down the road to Meissen, where Dresden porcellan is manufactured.
Charlie pulled us all the way up the hill to the Dom (cathedral), where we had a beautiful view of the valley and the Altstadt.
Next weekend: Off to Hamburg! We figure we better visit before we move further away.
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Christina,
postal deliverers in my part of Hessen can’t accept payment by EC card, either, so it looks like it’s not just a Brandenburg thing
Martina
Hey Martina,
I’ll have to let my mail carrier know that he is not alone.
They couldn’t take EC cards in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern either when I lived there, but that was 1.5 years ago now. I once got a package from the US and needed to pay something like 2 euro in import duties and had only a fifty euro bill on me. I ended up having to run to the doctor’s office in the next house over and asking for change.
Rainer informs me that I need to brush up on my German because the guy said that in other COUNTRIES the postmen can take payments by card, but that they can’t in Germany.
Just when I thought my German was getting good. Darn!
What great photos! I’ll definitely add Moritzburg and Meissen to my places to visit list.
They’re both very beautiful. And Rainer kept having to pull me away from the porcelan shops in Meissen. Meissen also has a very intact medieval city center.