Our travel to Wernigorod started in Dresden. I often go there so I do not have time to get bored. Because of the World Cup, it was empty. Usually slaughtered by Russian tourists, the streets are very quiet. All because the ticket to Moscow was bought by German fans, which is incredible!

Zwinger
There are no queues at the museum, and according to Zwinger, for example, we usually walk alone. Below is still wandering some rare small groups, and on the roof - just my angel friends and boys. They have just been restored, standing in all the colors of their light sand, and the girls around Fontana "Bathing Nymph" - too.

I read that every nymph with August Strong's favorite is formed. Like Ludwig Second in Bavaria, August is very sympathetic to me. Happy fellow, philanthropist, voluptuary and so on. With Peter I'm a friend, by the way. And the nymphs are completely different, the faces and the living body. One's hands are hardly a Countess. And someone - very elegant. Presented, what is the husband of these prelestnits to walk here and admire the face of their wife. Despite the favorites of the favorites, Augustus was able to thank them for the fun.

At the feet of almost every nymph is a child, or even two. Fantasize? Augustus had eight legitimate children and 346 (three hundred and forty-six !!!) invalid! According to unverified data, that's true. It is unlikely that the architects and sculptors of Balthasar Permoser (Balthasar Permoser) cite this fact in the construction of the Zwinger palace complex.

But there we arrived at the end of the day, when the rain had subsided. The day in general is frenzied - at first very hot, plus 33, then suddenly wind storms bring storm clouds, and added 14 be, and at night the temperature reaches 18 degrees. We are happy, we wear raincoats and run into the city under the umbrella.

Hofkirche
We went to the Palace Church - Hofkirche (1739-1755). This church is a favorite of my friends, and God is the most beautiful there.

Irka, it's the name of a friend, a man of faith, but prefers to walk here, and not to a Russian church. He had his score to the Russian church, he was offended when I wanted to be baptized there, and my father said that "Let him go and be baptized in the dwelling." And he refused. And I walked with non-Christians.

Today, everything went well: only we went to church - the evening service started. Not in the center of the cathedral, but in the royal chapel, where visitors are closed. As far as I know, you can go there just by tour, like in the basement, where the heart of Augustus is buried. Rest in some parts. His body is in Poland, because he is also king of Poland, and his heart is here, "where his love persists," he said.

You are listening to the body for now, and I will share my nasty thoughts with you.

Well, that stupid is Countess von Kozel! Who does not know, this is August Strong's most famous favorite. The beauty, married, of course, did not surrender himself to Augustus, until he gave him an official letter, that he would marry her immediately at the first opportunity. That is, soon, how he will get rid of his wife, thanks for not killing, but divorced.

The Countess rushed to write, divorce her husband and start living with the Saxons. Furst means Prince, ruler. And that, he is a prominent man and his nickname "Strong" is fully justified. He not only knows how to bend a horseshoe, but he is tireless in the affairs of romance.
She has a mistress! But Kozel is the most beloved. She gave birth to several children, a gift, she filled it with precious, built a palace for her ... Tashenbergpalas, for example, where the Kempinski Hotel is now located.

Anna Constantia Reichsgräfin von Cosel
A few years later he cooled down to be beautiful and taken away by a Polish princess, in such a way that he wanted to marry her. The marriage was not entirely for love, after the wedding, Augustus received the Polish crown.
It was recklessly given as soon as the letter prevented him from doing it without a hitch. After all, he gave the word from furst, and then took and deceived the poor woman. Augustus asked to give the document in a good way, and no one in the countess! Then he imprisoned her, thinking carefully, in the tower of Stolpen's castle. I was there - scary even in the summer!

By the way, I somehow make a riddle about "sitting in the girl's basement, and scythe on the street, that it's" my girlfriend's daughter. "He thinks and says that it's Countess von Kozel, and you can not say that he's not right.The girl was about five years later.

The Countess did not give up the letter and remained imprisoned for years. Surprisingly, he was used to and did not want to leave the tower even after the king's death. By the way, the countess lady was unusual, even with her Voltaire in correspondence. In total, Anna Constance von Kozel spent 49 years at Stolpen and was buried in the castle. I will tell you about the Countess and Stolpene next time, and now we will leave for Vernigorod.

Wernigerode
We left the next morning. Buy an interesting ticket - Sachsen-Ticket called. It costs 31 euros for two, maximum can travel five. However, I wrote about this in the article: "The discrimination of pets relative to children or German public transport from tram to express train". Detail - there is, but here I will limit myself to only one additional. Sachsen-Ticket operates in three neighboring countries: Saxony, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt. In Saxony-Anhalt we need it, Vernigerode is there, on the border with Lower Saxony.

I have been hearing about this city for a long time that it is very nice, colorful, and there at every step a magician sold.

And all because it's close is Brocken Mountain, where once a year there is a Walpurgis night. The famous mountain was made by Goethe, depicting it in Faust. Is this the place where the magicians on the Sabbath are gathered, or not, I do not know, but now all real and imaginary German magicians set the annual meeting of the mountain, it happened at the end of April.

I'm back on the road and our weather today. During a full week of travel, a complete disgrace was promised! 13-14 degrees of heat and the possibility of rain - 90%! True, the predictions when we cheat, since morning - it is clear. Not hot, but no rain, and the sun even glanced.

We drove with two transplants: in Leipzig and Halle. In Russia, the city's name sounds like "Halle", but it's wrong, no "g" sound.
Halle is also an interesting city. Not only that, the British did not bomb him - the mayor rescued. He "honorable aggressor" met, if only to save the city, and a symbolic key to the private gate of the hand, which he gratefully citizens declared traitor ... And in Halle after the revolution, there are avant-garde Russian artists, led by Kandinsky.
In Halle I'm not a hundred years old, a decent photo for friends without kids, and with Bach's background, I do not, so take it from the internet.

The site of Leipzig-Halle is very pleasant. The train was packed, it was just impossible to put in the compartment where the passengers were traveling by bicycle. Among them and the owners drank them, we settled.

Judging from their brilliant red faces, they began drinking for a long time. And the beer was taken from a thermos bottle of baby with soft lime color, looks very nice. Glancing at my friend, one handed the bottle open: "Will you?" He was shocked, but took the bottle, gulped and let down the circle, which gave me. Disgusting, by the way, horrible, beer not "clean", but mixed with German elderberry lemonade for some reason like this rinsing. Then in the circle go candy "Edle Tropfen", noble drops, then. No thank you, I do not mind filling - candy with that schnapps, and I do not like sweet.

The whole car was amused, not just us, in the conversations of the men I caught the word "Moskau".

• Are you going to the championship?
• No, at music festivals.

Wow! Such people are brutal and - music!
They left, and I'm talking about boyfriend festival. And he:

• Yes, to the festival! Not hear it? They are Nazis! At the Nazi music festival, as a support group!
  He was closer to them, talked.

"Wow!" - I say again - but kind of normal people, you can not even say. "
"And we drink from the same bottle!" Add Irka.
That's how our journey started very funny.