Leipzig part 2

 

Then today we went back to old town to take some pictures and buy some electrical adapters. We could use more. Interesting enterprise. Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to return them. Very complicated since some countries have square holes and some have round and never the two shall fit.

Some pictures of the older buildings or the ones we found interesting.  Notice how many people are running around Leipzig.

  

                                                       

Other interesting sights.

   This is the mailman delivering with his bike with built-in carriage for the mail.

     

   Family outing, mom, dad and the 3 kids.

                                                                                                    

Unlike when I went to East Berlin in 1968, the stores are now just like ours, stocked full with no long lines waiting to get bread.

Then to more music. We went to Thomas Church for a recital, ok not a recital but a service, but the service was in German but the music was in every language. The main huge organ played, the boy’s choir full of angels sang and then the regular organ played. I guess the German spoken was sermonizing, but who cared.

            

Before we left Leipzig we passed a fenced off area. While excavating for a new building new the old town, which is now full of high priced and high end stores, the found a maybe 1000 year old cistern with its pipes and walls and arches. Now they are fighting over saving it or building over it. A nice man translated the sign for us. People are really nice.

This next picture needs a bunch of explanation.  This is a statue outside a store on a crowded pedestrian mall.  At first it is very upsetting.  There is a plaque on the front, but that didn’t help much, but it did seem to confirm what I think this art piece displays.  Notice the figure’s head just poking out from between his shoulders.

                                                                     

                                          The Nazis then the Soviets beat us down, but we are making our way back.