Hitchhikers, Beautiful Dresden, first night in a hostel and bed bugs

Actually, I am sitting next to my car in the beautiful evening sunshine in Saxon Switzerland and I just had a nutella roll. But before I report about walks in the nature, we go back to the city of Dresden or rather on the drive from Berlin to Dresden…

…because after I had spent the weekend in Berlin, I went to the gas station to give the car a little bit of strength for the two-hour drive to Dresden. And as fate would have it, at the gas station there was already a hitchhiker with a sign after… exactly, Dresden! Covid-19 or not, I can’t leave the girl at the gas station. After all, anyone who has ever hitchhiked himself always likes to take other people with him. And besides, you are usually entertained. As a rule! In this case quite little… because Pavlina from Poland spoke surprisingly little English as well as no German. Anyway, I took this from her word fragments and except for a little small talk we both could listen to the radio. At least she admired my cool built-in bed in the car. Most of the past days when she was travelling,  she just slept in her sleeping bag where it fit. Almost like me, at least if you believe the imprint on my German identity card.

After I dropped Pavlina off, I walked a few meters to the hostel. Yeah, my first hostel visit in Covid-19 times. I more or less stumbled over it in the internet, that some hostels are open again and dorm rooms are fully occupied. You can see it how you want. But if airplanes don’t keep their distance… well, why endanger the hostel industry. Anyway, I thought… shared rooms, in Dresden central and free parking? Yes yes yes, I have to support that directly! And, it was a really fancy hostel! A lot of space, nice receptionists with cool tips and within walking distance to the Neustadt. why I don’t call the hostel by name now?… I’ll come back to that later. First of all I have to report a little euphoric about Dresden!