Sunday, May 20, 2007

Moritzburg (Near Dresden)

Last weekend, I biked to a place called Moritzburg. It was about a 12km bike to get there. It wasn't really that strenuous of a bike ride, except for the uphill parts. I always gain a tremendous amount of respect for the Tour de France racers every time I struggle up a small hill on a bike. These pros bike up mountains!

Moritzburg was a castle used as a hunting lodge for Duke Moritz of Saxony during the mid 1500's.

The town of Moritzburg.

The hunting lodge.

These creatures must be related to Canadian Geese. They crap everywhere, and they have a similar annoying squawk.

A garden behind the castle.

The castle is actually situated in the middle of a lake. I'm not quite sure if the lake was built around the castle, or the castle built in the middle of the lake.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who live in the castle?

mas said...

The castle is just a museum now... It costs like 6 Euros to go inside, so I decided against going inside.

9ave said...

Those birds look like puffins... I suppose those pestilent animals are in every country.