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Leipzig Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig, a place to discover
... old but every detail of his compulsory residence in this city is still as clear as if it were yesterday.His first impression was Leipzig Central Station. A beautiful building with a facade of 293 m long and a total floor area of 83.460 ...
K(r)ampf der Verkehrsmittel
... hrung. Punkt Preis: Die Fakten: Frankfurt - Toronto über London, Hin- und Zurück: 4 Flüge, 12736km und 365€. Leipzig - Frankfurt, einfach: nicht ganz 400km 80€. Aufgrund British Tee-mit-Milch-Trinker seh ich für die Rückfahrt noch mal den ...
Back to School and Leipzig Trip
... a cake which was really sweet and then she was off to Spain for holiday. (Lucky) Last weekend I headed off to Leipzig and Grimma, Germany which are about an hour away. My friend Liz moved there to be an English teacher and was looking for ...
Reiseroute
Unsere Reise beginnt am 07.03. um 14.00 in Frankfurt am Main. Dann geht es erstmal nach Dubai und letztendlich nach Bangkok. Dort landen wir am 08.03.um 12.15 (Ortszeit). Um keine Zeit zu verschwenden, geht es am Nachmittag mit Bangkok Airways gleich ...
Leipzig, ich komme, ich komme!
... on the mood?! So I went to crab a beer like many others. And then it started. Söhne Mannheims, live at Leipzig Arena. U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E that was!!!!!!! I hardly understood anything cause most of the singing was in German, but these guys had such ...
Around Leipzig
... crepes for J & A. We looked at Nikolaikirche and Thomaskirche, both associated with JS Bach from the time he was cantor of Leipzig. We followed signs to Mendelssohn's house but never found it. Helen was amused by the sign for a coffee shop, ...
Endless Wine Supply
... very conscious about recycling. Our German professor told us that Germany is about the size of Montana. Dresden and Leipzig are considered big cities for Germany, yet they seem relatively small to all of us. The cities are very unique in the fact that ...
Primer Contacto: La llegada a Frankurt.
... era el mismo "Uno" que jugamjos en argentina. Que loco! Un juego tan boludo y basico trascendiendo fronteras de esa manera! Llegue a Leipzig, en orden. Hecho mierda y casnado: pero bien :) Tip de Viaje N°1: Copren el ticket del tren al menos 2 dias antes ...
"Wir sind das Volk!"
... myself who’d been out of the loop for three days by that point in the middle of a revolution, was much needed!) Leipzig has a slightly different feel than Dresden: though they are both steeped in history and culture, and both have emerged from the ...
Vapiano
... " sang Was Gott Tut, Das Ist Wohlgetan while Elizabeth (participant) played the violin (that she is renting for the 2 weeks here in Leipzig) on the melody line and I played flute on the alto. It was fun. After our morning lecture, David, another ...
Sinn des Reisens
Dieser Blog soll den Daheimgebliebenen ein ständiger Begleiter unserer aufregenden Reise durch Südostasien sein. Wir werden versuchen ihn so oft wie möglich mit Einträgen zu füllen. Viel Spaß dabei! Wir sind dann mal weg. "Der Sinn des Reisens ...
My room
The room at the Novotel was bright white. Very clean. Not much to say about it. I just always think it is interesting to see how different the rooms can be. There was one disconcerting thing about it, though. Actually, it wasn't just the Novotel, this ...
Neato Netto
After class today I spent some time on the hotel's computer and set off to the city center to look for some groceries to keep in the room. I met up with some folks from our group. It seems inevitable, that we are a large enough group and the city ...
Day 32 -- ....and then there was One
... other parts of Eastern Germany. Before the year ended, the Berlin Wall had fallen and followed within a year by the reunification of Germany into one nation rather than a land that had been divided for more than 50 years. Like the Frauenkirche in Dresden, ...
Leipzig: The happy city?
... dad on the phone! Made me really happy and a lot less lonely so yay. ALSO found out MUMS COMING TO GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't waaiiittttt! Oh, and organised my first mitfahrgelegenheit- in german! For friday afternoon. Hope it goes okay! EDIT: ...
Returned from My Glorious Weekend With My BABYGIRL
Jess and I had a wonderful weekend touring Munich! And she actually liked me speaking German for once! Yay!! Good Times! Good Times!! <3 <3 <3 My first time in Germany with one of my children! And it was super ...
Low-profile student-packed city gets my thumbs up
... thanks, for the most part, to internet sales and downloads which have all but killed off the independent retailer's business. In Leipzig however, there was firm evidence to suggest that this type of store was very much being kept afloat, and satisfied ...
Wave Gotik Treffen interlude
Ah WGT, where I can't apparently make it through one night without ending up at the Moritzbastei at 4:30 in the morning. I drank everything. And then I fell down. And then I got lost and I cried. But Das Boy saved me, cos he is lovely. ...
Ein Ausblick auf das, was mich erwarten wird
Noch knapp 30 Stunden bis zum Aufbruch. Ein letzter Stop in Leipzig ist Pflicht, "Muddi" hat Geburtstag. Der erste Geburtstag, seit Studiumsbeginn, wo ich mal wieder zu Hause bin. Der Samstag Morgen stellt mir auch freundlicherweise gleich ein ...
Studentenheim Rosa Luxemburg
Unser erster Gig im Osten, damals noch DDR. Wir haben da unten in der Caffeteria des Studentenheims in der Leipziger Innenstadt gespielt, die Akustik war verheerend, das Publikum spärlich, aber lustig war's trotzdem. Die Gage war 300 Ostmark, die gab's ...
Switching Trains
I just got on my train to Berlin via Leipzip. This itinerary is this: Erfurt HBF>09.38>Gleis 6>ICE 1555 Leipzig HBF>10.46>Gleis 10 Leipzig HBF>10.52>Gleis 11>ICE 1612 Berlin HBF>12.05>Gleis 7 I woke up at 06.15 because ...
Wave Gotik Treffen Miscellanea I
WGT proved that goth is entirely international and is glued far far more strongly to 'tribal' lines than country borders. Identical fashioned cyber kids and trad.goth queens would be speaking 4 different languages and purchasing clothes made on 3 ...
Day 33 -- Preparing to Move On
... items from a variety of sources around Leipzig and its surrounding area. If I read the one sign correctly the University of Leipzig had a pharmacy school around 1425! There were displays of old instruments, products in old packaging, old books and ...