Germany: Leipzig

leipzig

We left Berlin to spend two days in Leipzig. We moved from one spacious, luxurious apartment to another. On the train, we seated ourselves in the first 6 seat compartment available. Others joined us. Then a blind man with a black Lab dog entered. Inappropriately, we were sitting in an area for the handicap which kind of fits us. The blind man without hesitation asked us where we came from. From that nice gesture, we conversed for the rest of the trip. He was born prematurely and had vision in only one eye. He then lost that vision about 13 years ago. He told us the history of guide dogs and how they were started after WWI because so many soldiers came back blind. He is a researcher on Nordic history. Time flew by.

Our apartment is close to the train station and has an interesting way of acquiring the key. First there is a code for the front door. Once in you go to a key lock box and enter another code and the key is released. The beautiful, large apartment is on the third floor and has a living room, bathroom, kitchen and bed room.

Now some pictures of the apartment in Berlin

Leipzig is known as the city of music. The musical composers that lived and worked here: Bach, Wagner, Clara and Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Hanns Eisler, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdi, and Albert Lortzing . It is also the home of Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Leipzig Opera that date back to the 1600’s. It is also a city known for its history. It is here where 70,000 people took to the streets to demonstrate for freedom of speech, assembly and travel that brought down the collapse of the soviet regime and the Berlin wall.