Traveled down to Saxony and the capital Dresden lovingly situated on the banks of the Elbe, a few hundred kilometres upstream from Hamburg. Dresden was of course heavily bombed in the war and most of the city centre flattened. You wouldn’t know it looking at the massive church or Frauenkirche dominating the main square. It was a heap of rubble for the forty years of socialist rule, left as a monument to the folly of war. However in the last twenty years it has risen like a Phoenix and now stands tall and proud. It is a very strange shape, more like a tower than a church, you certainly don’t want to suffer from vertigo in the top seats.

Had a look round the museums, stuffed full of treasure from the Middle Ages and went for a walk round the Zwinger, a beautiful old building in the centre. While I was in the grounds I saw a cop do a summersault and then charge into the building waving his gun. He obviously didn’t do it quite right as the director called for a second take.