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02 August 2015 @ 04:33 pm
[livejournal.com profile] alias_chick's visit - day 2  
This time we went with my mom, because alone I don't handle strange places well. And [livejournal.com profile] alias_chick knows the place (Rathen and the Bastei) even less.

First we went to Pillnitz Castle.

So many ducks!

So many sparrows!

The plan was to take one of these paddle steamers to Rathen later.

[livejournal.com profile] alias_chick's panorama of Pillnitz Castle.

Look at us fangirls: Han Solo shirt and TARDIS dress.

Just after we went into the restaurant there, it started to pour down.

Ooh, I remember those scales. They used to be in train stations, when I was little.

*snort* The restaurant has wash buckets.


Because of the weather we postponed Rathen and decided to go home.

Note the guy in yellow looking up at something...


Swallows sheltering from the rain.

Later that day [livejournal.com profile] alias_chick and I went to the panometer, but it was closed.

But the trip wasn't in vain, the other gasometer was nice to photograph.

Heh, that long nose.

There was a dragonfly flying around and eventually I managed to get a good photo.


[livejournal.com profile] alias_chick and the panometer.


Then we took pictures of snails.

I find breathing pores weird, because they're only on one side.

Here, have 3 for the price of 1!

Look how small this one is!

Colorful hubcaps!

For dinner we had pasta my sister had brought me from her Rome trip.

Luckily already during cooking [livejournal.com profile] alias_chick noticed that she's reacting to something in the pasta, checked the ingredients and found out that the black color comes from cephalopod ink. So then I got to eat all the Hufflepuff-colored ones, yeah!

In search for something to watch we looked at my DVD & VHS collections and fangirling ensued. Then we watched X-Men: First Class.
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[identity profile] dieastra.livejournal.com on August 2nd, 2015 06:48 pm (UTC)
Aw sorry that it rained and the trip was shortened. I have taken quite a few people to the Bastei already - one from Japan, one from America, one from Hamburg... we usually go up by bus from Pirna and then walk down. Last time I was with friends in December and we walked up in the afternoon when it already was darkening. Took great misty pictures and were almost alone on the top, as opposite to the summer time. But waiting for the bus down at 6 PM in the absolute dark was creepy!

If you imagine how high the water was at Pillnitz with the floods! Unbelievable.

That Pasta looks weird and amazing at the same time! How did it taste?
fueschgast[personal profile] fueschgast on August 4th, 2015 09:58 pm (UTC)
Ooh, did you and your guests take the Bastei shuttle by any chance? The driver told us he likes to collect foreign coins.
Ooh, I'd like to see these misty photos!

The pasta tasted pretty normal.
[identity profile] dieastra.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2015 05:22 am (UTC)
No, it's the regular bus number 237 from Pirna to Sebnitz. Not every one of them, but some go directly up to the Bastei parking place. The others go only to that big parking place in Rathewalde, from which you then have to take a shuttle bus but you have to pay extra for it, and it does not run very often. Also when the Bastei parking place is full, people with cars have to park there.

I'm not sure where to exactly board the real Bastei shuttle? I see signs for it in Lohmen for example, but I am not sure where all the stops are and how to get to them.
fueschgast[personal profile] fueschgast on August 5th, 2015 12:32 pm (UTC)
I don't know if the Bastei shuttle has a schedule or if it only comes on request like a taxi. We saw a sign for it at the little crossing in Rathen (where a path to the Amselsee branches off) and reqested it.