Blogs from Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Europe - page 7

Hello everyone. We have had a really cool week and are now in Leipzig. All has gone well and camping is getting a lot easier as the sun has decided to make an appearance. It was a bit of a wrench last Sunday to leave the luxuries of Fritzlar and the hospitality of our hosts, we were only there a couple of nights but it really recharged us. And aso Gabriele and Rolf did us the service of introducing us to a weird type of mushroom called pfifferlinge which they are all mad about here. It took a couple of days to get to Göttingen, our next stop. It is an old university town but nowadays a fairly modern looking place. Whilst there, a momentous occasion occured. We had looked around the town a bit and ... read more

so to start z is the new y because im layz and these crayz german bastards have screwed up the computer somehow. we left amsterdam for a town called kaiserslautern which is the smallest host of the world cup. it was so cool there. we stazed about 2 miles outside of the citz center. in a 13th centurz monk barn. outside of the citz center about 200 zards is forrest. and we walked about 2 miles through the forrest to our place. huge forest with weird monuments all over. some nayi stuff....it was weird.. thez had a huge beer garten though which made up for anz previous apprehension i had previouslz had... we hung out there for a bit and then went into the town for the us game. thez have these things called fan fests ... read more

Had a look around Fulda, nice little town. Booked tonights accommodation via the web - the right way to do it - a hotel between Halle and Leipzig. Had first real sausage, Bratwurst mit Brot - yum. Got to hotel just before dinner, schitzel for dinner, Champions League was on so bar was pretty lively. Some crap team called Arsenal lost. Do Germans know anything about the harm of smoking? No anti-smoking laws here. And dogs walking around shopping malls? sausage count = 1... read more

We only got to spend one afternoon in Leipzig (our friends here pronounce it "Laipt-sish"!), but I really liked this city! Everything is close together, so it was easy to walk from the train station to all the things we wanted to see. And just like Berlin, there is a lot of history here, and a lot to learn! There are two famous churches in Leipzig: the Nikolaikirche (which means, "St. Nicholas' Church") and the Thomaskirche ("St. Thomas' Church"). The very important composer Johann Sebastian Bach worked at both of these churches during his career, and his grave is located inside the Thomaskirche! There is a big statue of him in front of the entrance. There is also a small statue of J.S. Bach inside the Nikolaikirche, but th... read more

1754　ICE 1516 　　我最記得Leipzig的甚麼？是地盤。不知是否要迎接06年世界盃，市內大興土木，連市場也佈滿機關，根本在每一條街也望見地盤（沒有誇張），有一些看似是興建拆卸同時進行的地盤，望著那有一邊被搗破而另一半還殘存的樓宇，簡直回到空襲的年代。正如後來在一家大書店看到一本講盟軍空襲的書，其封面給我的感覺，和那地盤給我的，如出一轍。我甚至第一次在架空了的起重天秤下走過，經過時也生怕上面會坍塌下來。 　　在這種氣氛下，甚麼景點也不再是景點（相信商戶一定苦不堪言），也沒有心情去尋找和拍照，唯有逛商店，但此時已開始下毛毛雨，於是迅速將活動範圍從Nikolaistraβe退到火車站。書上說Leipzig Hbf是全歐洲最大的，我走到月台無蓋的盡處望望，感覺上Frankfurt等車站也差不了多少，商店倒是有很多（地底還有兩層）。我其實是想趁這一小時的空檔（我大約只在市內逗留了個半小時，僅比Bonn要好些）首次喝喝德國的啤酒，但看來車站內沒有賣杯裝酒的地方。找呀找的，結果找到一家Aldi超級市場，平到眼突！似乎跌破香港價！ 1kg提子加一「筒」橙汁再加一杯朱古力雲呢拿只是€1.63，恍如隔世！（1823）Lutherstadt Wittenberg。對面月台有男子橫跨兩格椅子睡著，動也不動，像隻死豬。 　　還是先吃了那個魚柳包，想必已經「涼透心」了。 1838　ICE 1516 Wagen24#36 　　雖然今天有點悶，但當坐上這樣快捷、舒適、穩定的ICE（當然最好像現在般，順向加窗口位），一種優越感便油然而生，重燃起「我現在在德國」的興奮心情。想起昨天在歷史博物館的介紹，當年英國要德國貨加上'made in Germany'的標籤，純粹出於貿易保護，但結果是那成為優質的記認，連本土的商品也標明made in Germany，搞笑。 　　現在「海德堡補償方案」有了新進展，因為我在Zoologischer Garten的月台上找到一班可在中午到達Frankfurt的列車，Heidelberg可放在20/8，而剛才又想起可到... read more