Less Adventures in Leipzig

Definitely not the most exciting place in the world! I think the highlight of Christine´s time in Leipzig was laughing at me on the train: since a backpack makes turning round in a train near impossible I had to walk backwards so I couldn't see the step sneaking up on me. Cue James doing his best upside down tortoise impression on the floor, Christine peeing herself laughing and a load of confused looking Germans not knowing whether to help or giggle!

We stayed with a Nigerian guy called Godwyn, who was really welcoming. He took us out that night to meet a load of other English speakers living in the city. They gave us some ideas about what to do and then spent ten times as long slating Berlin, our next stop.Many thanks to all the facebookers who reassured us (correctly) about how ace Berlin actually is. Anyway, beer and lots of people who speak English meant that it was quite a late one so so a tough early morning next day for exploring. It most definitely won't be the last!

It took us about 3 hours to see all of Leipzig that we wanted. It was good to see the church where Bach performed a lot of his works and is now buried, I got to see a Sci-Fi exhibit in a free museum and Christine got to see a wedding where the church was still open to tourists. Win-win i suppose!


















By now we're fully immersed in German culture so we carried it on with dinner (sorry Christine, I mean tea) in an Irish pub. At least it was German beer!

Having seen all of Leipzig on the first day, the wait for the bus to Berlin was a bit painful. All we wanted to do was get to the capital and go exploring but we'd planned that we'd want the morning in Leipzig so had to wait ages for our bus. At least we made friends with a load of ducks while we waited.