Ah Vancouver! I love Vancouver! I have been there in 2008 and 2010 for Stargate conventions with Richard Dean Anderson. We also checked out all the filming locations for Stargate and MacGyver. I also was up Grouse Mountain, up Burnaby Mountain, Lighthouse Park, Whytecliff Park, Stanley Park, in Steveston, and of course the Capilano and Lynn Canyon bridges and did a Whale Watching trip to Victoria Island, visited the miniature museum there (of course! Sadly too little time) and we were in the Burnaby Village museum. I've really seen a lot.
Germany has everything. Mountains in the South, and the Baltic Sea with beaches in the North. I am in Dresden (captial of Saxony), close to the Czech border. This is former East Germany while Bavaria is West Germany. Dresden is down in a valley at the river Elbe, but we also have mountains nearby where you can go by train for skiing in winter. And we have Saxon Switzerland nearby, great for hiking and climbing. Check it out! https://www.google.de/search?q=s%C3%A4chsische+Schweiz&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTmvTE5dPgAhXvVBUIHehpB-0Q_AUIDygC&biw=1366&bih=632
We also have lots of old castles and fortresses and museums with jewelry and picture collections. Our former King was a lover of the arts. Lots of historic stuff. This is what the inner city of Dresden looks like: https://dmg.dresden.de/media/bilder/dmg/unternehmen/1920x1080-Dresden-Altstadt-Augustusbruecke-Silhouette.jpg.scaled/23363240c11cc716eafcd41fd110ea28.jpg
You can also do a tour by steamboat on the river. Many tourists come here every year and I love it.
Your LJ profile said United States. I know about the snow in the US but it hasn't made news in a while so I didn't know if it was still ongoing. It's always nice to know internet friends in certain areas as you learn more from them locally.
Politically we have the same problems like others, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Since I have grown up in East Germany and know a different life - not everything was good back then, but some things were better - so I am looking at all this with a critical eye but what can you do. No matter which party, these politicans are all the same. Then again from experience I also know that nothing lasts forever and who knows, maybe there will be a change one day! I was 16 years old when the Berlin Wall fell.
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Date: 2019-02-24 07:06 am (UTC)Germany has everything. Mountains in the South, and the Baltic Sea with beaches in the North. I am in Dresden (captial of Saxony), close to the Czech border. This is former East Germany while Bavaria is West Germany. Dresden is down in a valley at the river Elbe, but we also have mountains nearby where you can go by train for skiing in winter. And we have Saxon Switzerland nearby, great for hiking and climbing. Check it out! https://www.google.de/search?q=s%C3%A4chsische+Schweiz&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTmvTE5dPgAhXvVBUIHehpB-0Q_AUIDygC&biw=1366&bih=632
We also have lots of old castles and fortresses and museums with jewelry and picture collections. Our former King was a lover of the arts. Lots of historic stuff. This is what the inner city of Dresden looks like: https://dmg.dresden.de/media/bilder/dmg/unternehmen/1920x1080-Dresden-Altstadt-Augustusbruecke-Silhouette.jpg.scaled/23363240c11cc716eafcd41fd110ea28.jpg
You can also do a tour by steamboat on the river. Many tourists come here every year and I love it.
Your LJ profile said United States. I know about the snow in the US but it hasn't made news in a while so I didn't know if it was still ongoing. It's always nice to know internet friends in certain areas as you learn more from them locally.
Politically we have the same problems like others, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Since I have grown up in East Germany and know a different life - not everything was good back then, but some things were better - so I am looking at all this with a critical eye but what can you do. No matter which party, these politicans are all the same. Then again from experience I also know that nothing lasts forever and who knows, maybe there will be a change one day! I was 16 years old when the Berlin Wall fell.