Westin Leipzig

... war and Hitler. I don't think you had a chance of not being brainwashed ..he had a monopoly on the minds of the young, it must have been hard to be German during the war and not knowing you were on the wrong side of humanity.<br> Anyways..after we were finished it was around 4pm..we got a Bratwurt for me and a Currywurst for Dan and then headed off to find internets to book accomodation for the night. The tripadvisor is your friend and we booked cheap accomodation ...

... took about half an hour to get to the zoo. By this time, of course, the Swedish snake that Saskia had been desperate to bring with us, had gotten too heavy and lost its appeal. Martina wrapped it round herself like a mad scarf and we went off to see the black bears, pygmy hippos and penguins. We didn't have a chance to see all the creatures. It would have taken too long. We did see the baby elephant and some very cool lizards. The ...

... to find that it is a modern building rather than the old one we had expected. We went to the Egyptian Museum, which was a very interesting but very small collection.<br><br>Our next appointment was at Thomaskirche for a Motette at which the Ottawa Bach Choir were singing. We had some time to kill, so looked through the shops to get Helen some new jeans - with eventual success - and had a coffee.<br><br>The Thomaskirche was nearly full for the ...

We slept in until 9:30, with only a few disturbances overnight. We had been worried about noise from the trams outside the door and the railway line next door, but it wasn't bad enough to wake us. The renovation included double-glazed windows, which certainly cut out a lot of noise.<br>We spent the morning pottering around in the apartment, and trying to arrange for a load of washing - but the man was off having his foot treated so we couldn't (or get onto the ...

... just took us on a loop back to the same spot. So, we guessed which road might be a way around the blockage and followed it until the GPS found us another way back past the blockage to our destination, Guesthouse Apartments Leipzig. We were concerned by the shabby appearance of the outside, and by the road being dug up to re-lay the tram lines. We parked across the street in the carpark of a hardware store and walked over to find out about checking in. We were very cold ...

The Start of our Travel was the regular Train-Journey from Zittau to Leipzig. A not very spectacular drive, which we do almost every week. We wanted to use the time to improve our spanish skills but ended up talking to some carneval-junkies, boarding the train some 15 minutes after us...

... aber noch auf uns warten. Auch wenn sich der endgueltige Abflug bis nach 2Uhr hinzog - jeder im Flieger vertraute den Aussagen. Montag ca. 11:00 Vereinigter Emirater Ortszeit (oder wie das heisst) - der Flieger ist gelandet und wir werden am Flughafen empfangen. Keiner ahnt allerdings zu diesem Zeit*********** der Anschluss selbstverfreilich nicht gewartet hat und was uns weiter erwartet. Die naechsten 7 Stunden werden wir auf dem Flughafen Abu Dhabi ...

Leipzig had one of the coolest museums we've visited so far: one dedicated to the operations of the GDR (East German) secret police, known as the Stasi. The GDR kept extremely detailed tabs on EVERYONE in their country, employing spies of all ages and collecting and filing all the information. The Stasi Museum (Museum an der Runden Ecke) was their old headquarters in Leipzig and has been kept as it was to show the oppressive nature of even the Stasi workplace. Very exciting and VERY cool!

... recurrent theme of the holiday, we soon found out that 1 full day was not enought to properly appreciate all that Leipzig has to offer. Our day began with a buffet breakfast in the hotel, even though this was not included in our room rate. Mum and Dad had fond memories of the breakfast here and of watching the trams roll past while eating so we decided to give it a whirl for 1 morning. The food was nice and the selection was probably the biggest of the ...

... seats after waiting half an hour to get through the security check at the gates. If you thought the World Cup would have orderly, single file lines for the security check, you would be wrong. 3:50 - I will be blogging today from the Leipzig Zentralstadion, block 43, row 4, seat 17. Our seats are on the second level in the corner of the stadium, overall the view is pretty good. Sitting around us seems to be a lot of other impartial fans, so if there are riots today it ...