Purple

The very first flowers in our yard!

Universitätsklinikum

Universitätsklinikum

Neighbor's garden

Another neighbor's garden

Hermann-Seidl Park

Nina and Peepow

Peepow and the purple flower. Cute <3

The first flower in the post was also the first to show up on everybody's gardens. Overnight, every garden was full of them! The one in the picture was broken by accident when Cookie, very surprised, first found it.

Blaues Wunder sneak peek

Elbe's beautiful riverbank.

Blaues Wunder.

Blaues Wunder.

When I went to Universitätsklinikum I remebered I needed to schedule another appointment, but somewhere else. It was close, so I took a tram and went. When I got to the clinic, the doctor also had prolonged the holiday!

But I realized I was really close to the Blaues Wunder, so I decided to go there.

The pictures aren't very good because I took them with my phone and it was raining and dark. When I go back, I'll take better pictures.

Look at the Elbe riverbank, it's so large and beautiful!

I managed to take a picture of a white tree, like I promised to try when I talked about them. I thought this restaurant was really nice to go on a beutiful day, so I took a picture of it to show R and later realized the tree was there. It is already turning green, but you can still have a good idea of how white they get.

I knew this street sign would interest many people, so I decided to add this picture (hehe). I didn't go check the wine street because it was starting to rain even more. When I go back, I'll come here and tell you what it's like.

What to do with garbage in Dresden, Part 1

When we got here, we received a booklet from the relocation company with numerous information about Dresden. It has info from doctors to schools for children. One of the items that, right away, called my attention was garbage collection. I found it was really complicated compared to what we did in Brasil (organic or recyclable, basically) and thought I would have to check the book every time I needed to throw something away (not really, haha).

Of course, with time, I got used to it. I decided to write this post so you can see the difference and, maybe, help someone that's not so fortunate to have such a book.

Since the subject is quite extensive, I'll divide it in two parts: the garbage that's collected at your house and the one you need to take somewhere. Today, I'll talk about the garbage the city hall collects at your place.

Garbage cans in front of a building.

These garbage cans with colored lids are placed in front of the buildings. You take your trash there and the city hall collects it once a week. In our street it's every Thursday.

You start organizing the trash inside. I don't know if every house has this, but our apartment came with three trash cans installed under the sink. I decided they would be "yellow", "blue" and "black" to correspond to the trash can outside where each one would go. The "brown" garbage we put in smaller bags and take out as soon as possible, because it gets stinky fast.

In some buildings, the garbage cans are really big like this one. 

I'll describe briefly what goes in which can:

Yellow: plastic and metal. Here you put from body lotion bottles to bottle caps (metal or plastic ones). You don't put electronics, appliances or batteries.

Blue: clean paper. Newspapers, books (the horror!), magazines. Do not put dirty paper.

Brown: organic. Old food, gardening waste. Do not put meat or fish here!

Black: household waste. Also known as "everything that doesn't go anywhere else" - like meat, fish and broken appliances.

So these are the kinds of garbage that are collect at your place. On the next post, I'll write about the kinds of garbage you need to take somewhere.

Labor Day

There is nothing like resting in the sun to celebrate Labor Day.

Happy holiday!

White

While the yellow flowers came by themselves, in the middle of dry branches and dead grass, the white flowers came with the green.

Some trees, seen from a distance, are completely white. I couldn't take a picture of them because I was in the bus, but I saw many by the river. Maybe some other day I'll be able to take a picture?