dresden

The Transparent Volkswagen Factory

This is the actual production line throught the windows, if you look closely.

Paul, David, Bronte and Richard in Dresden.

We left Berlin on Tuesday morning and headed for Dresden. Once we arrived in Dresden we caught up with some friends from Adelaide, Paul and David. We spent the day with them and they left in the afternoon for Prague. We tried to do the factory tour of Volkswagen but the tours were not running at the moment and they advised us by email that the factory tours were closed for the week. Well we decided to go and have a look anyway and it was worth it. The factory is called "The transparent factory" and yes it is made of glass and you can see the cars being made from through the glass. It was very interesting and very very clean and organised. The people making the cars wore all white and looked more like doctors.

Dresden received bombings from the Americans in WWII and being part of the old Eastern Germany, nothing was fixed and a lot of the town was left in ruins . It is only recently, as in the last 5 years that they have rebuilt some of the buildings. The town was really nice and quite well organised with public transport and shops etc. They are still doing heaps of work.

Off to Brussels on Wednesday, a 9 hour train trip!!