Thursday, June 19, 2008

Glashütte


Welcome to Glashütte, a small (and when I mean small, I really mean small!) typical one-street village, where time has stood still and where the living is easy. This is Glashütte's bus stop, although to be honest, I am not quite sure a bus actually goes by this village!

The houses (all 6 of them!!!!!) are very old and typical and most of them were turned into small boutiques. Glashütte has no supermarket, post office or pharmacy, but it does have many little boutiques, which is why the tourist come to visit this small village. You can buy hand made pottery, hand made linen clothes or glas work, for which is it most well known. Glashütte was home to a glass work "factory" in the past, which has now been transformed into a museum.

Hard to believe I know, but you can find an automatic ice cream machine in Glashütte! Just follow the directions, and in a few seconds, you could be enjoying a soft ice cream cone!

Does anyone know what that is? It is a ant hill!!!! The photo poorly represents how big this ant hill really was, and you can't see all the ants walking on it, but let me tell you, it was really impressive!

Little boutiques of Glashütte


We went for a little walk around Glashütte and along the way, we came across this leg! Nothing else was found, just this leg. How bizarre!!!! We did not wait along to see if the thing that had left if behind would come back for it!

There is a nice little restaurant in Glashütte, that has a lovely beer garden, as well has home-made sausages, breads and ice cream. You have to feed those hungry tourists!

Are you slowly falling in love with Glashütte? That's a good thing, because they are looking for new inhabitants!

Waiting for the bus that will never come!


Some of the glass work for which Glashütte is well known!


Goodbye from Glashütte!

2 comments:

Valsis said...

I really enjoyed this pics a lot. I really like seeing pics of the little villages. So much fun. And those boutiques look lovely. I really like the first picture of the bus stop with the hefty man laying down ! I also like the second bus stop picture. Those people look happy as can be :)

Keep'em coming !
Miss you and love you tons
xxx

mvb said...

That town looks so very picturesque. A perfect place for an afternoon tea and kuchen.