Dresden rules Britain?
January 21, 2005Today in the morning I have been in the German Embassy to change my residence from Dresden to London. First I had to pass a security control: no bags, no mobile phones are allowed. You have to leave your backpack on some steel shelves which are installed at the wall outside the embassy. If you have some gadgets in your bag, you have to leave it with the security man. And today I had my Powerbook with me since the internet cable modem at home broke down and I want to check my mails what I just have finished sitting in a Starbucks Coffee on Oxford Street.
Anyway, when you are in the passport/visa office of the German embassy, you have to fill out a form and then you get a number. After you've been called, it works like in Germany: some additional forms, photo copies of your proof of address (in my case an electricity bill LOL) and of your passport. Then you have to take a seat again while they check the details and change the residence. During waiting for that I have seen that there are five pictures of German cities in the waiting room: Munich, Berlin, Bonn and Dresden. Well, that are only four cities. What is on the fifth picture? Surprisingly, it's Dresden again! ;-) Very nice and amazing at the same time. One picture shows Dresden's famous view from the Carola Bridge to the Semperoper and the Brühlsche Terrasse. And the second one shows Dresden's Striezelmarkt (Dresden's Christmas market) in the evening hours!
So, if I should get homesick, I can go to the German Embassy and see the pictures LOL.
