Tuesday was easier on the feet: a whirlwind journey by car to three distinctive castles in Saxony. First, we drove to Festung Königstein (literally, "King's stone fortress"), which does what it says on the tin: it's a fortress on top of a huge rock overlooking the Elbe River, a place where the King and court and pretty much most of Dresden, there's room, could retreat for safety in wartime. The natural fortifications mean if they don't want you in, you ain't gettin' in (maybe a clever disguise, but that's hard to scale up to an entire army once people caught onto the Trojan Horse thing), and it had its own secure water supply, so even a siege was going to be challenging. Today, hordes of marauding tourists invade via a totally safe but rather terrifying modern
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