Sounds Russian: Raskolnikov. For educated classes it is indeed – Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky. But when we hear Raskolnikoff (as it is spelled in German), we think of a pub and one of the best restaurants in the scene quarter of Dresden Neustadt (the New Town). First of all we love the perfect service – because they do it with...

The Striezelmarkt claims to be the oldest Christmas market in Germany (others do so, as well. But they aren’t, of course!).  It started as a one-day market in 1434 to provide the citizens of Dresden with the meat for the Christmas meal after the pre-Christmas period of fasting – and is now not only one of the oldest Christmas markets,...