Bike trip to Meissen

Meissen is a town that's about 25km bike from Dresden (50km round trip). The bike path is along the Elbe river, which passes through Dresden. Thankfully, there's a paved bike path along the Elbe river, which we used to get to Meissen.

Meissen was the birth place of high-quality porcelain produced in Europe. Before that time, high-quality porcelain was imported from China. The city's now a tourist town, with a few porcelain stores, and apparently there's a few porcelain factories around there.

My Canadian coworker, Jae, rented these crappy bikes for 10 Euro for the day. They were sufficient, but it was pretty embarrassing riding these things. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of it. Another German coworker and his wife joined us as well.

Biking along a canola plantation.
A beer garden along the bike path.

Through a small small town.

Another town.

A bunch of vineyards, surprise surprise.

Meissen.


We sat at a restaurant with a nice view, and had a Radler (literally means biker), which is a drink that's 1/2 pilsner beer and 1/2 sprite. An interesting combo. There's another interesting drink that's 1/2 pilsner beer and 1/2 coke. They were pretty refreshing...

On the way back, we had to rush back so we could get the bikes back before 6pm. We got there at 5:55pm, and just as we got back, one of my tires went out.