Playlist
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Die Ärzte - Nach Uns die Sintflut
Die Ärzte - Uns geht's prima
2raumwohnung - 36 Grad
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank - Begegnungen
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank - Begegnungen II
Sparks - Propaganda
Sparks - Plagiarism
Jeroen Van Veen - Einaudi: Waves The Piano Collection
Scars - Author! Author!
The Explorers - The Explorers
Bryan Ferry - Taxi
Yes - Big Generator
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World
Various Artists - Blue Note Trip - Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
Various Artists - Feelin' Blue
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
The Doors - Strange Days
Camel - The Snow Goose
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - A Night In Tunisia
Emerson Lake & Palmer - The Very Best Of...
Sharks - First Water
Various Artists - Spock's Beard
Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Gold Und Liebe
Biffy Clyro - Opposites
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
Pallas - XXV
Terje Rypdal - The Singles Collection
Tangerine Dream - Encore
Awake, as usual, before Annie...
Field recordings made, for use in some, as yet unplanned, future exercise...
The haul of holiday CDs so far...
Silly man...
The local cat was out and about...
Breakfast at home, before we walked down to the main street and caught a tram...
... into town...
...from where another was taken to carry us to this rather large monument...
...surrounded by other interesting stuff...
The approach was somewhat impressive...
It is, frankly, huge...
It is the Monument to the Battle of Nations which took place in 1813 and it took around 15 years to complete - just as World War One broke out - you can read about it here...
Before climbing to the top, we watched an impressive audio-visual presentation, tracing the events leading up to the battle and the history of the building...
There was a cabinet displaying items found during the process of erecting the beast...
Up to the first floor...
Like something out of Lord of the Rings...
Out and further upwards...
But still not at the top...
Napoleon's writing desk is in situ...
More views...
...and still with some considerable way to go...
We thought we'd like to visit this - but it turned out to be a crematorium...
The chimneys in the distance are unconnected..
As we prepared for the final flight of stairs to the very top, we took a look down...
...and then, out onto the roof...
...followed, inevitably, by the long descent to the ground - we departed by the other side of the man made lake that, not originally but these days, graces the front of the monument...
It was roasting...
..and so some refreshment was called for...
The beast and its better half in front of the other beast...
A tram back to town...
...and a walk about the town centre...
This church used to stand here...
...but, after 720 years, was blown up in 1968...
..and replaced with this...
...which led us into the University...
...where some stones from the old church had been preserved...
It seems...
...I've been to Leipzig before...
The students were out enjoying the sunshine...
To the market square...
... and its environs...
...and then a tram to a point form which we could tart another walk - Anne had been drawn to the bridge in the distance every time we passed this point on the tram home from town so, today we alighted and took a walk to it...
Turns out...
...it's a dam...
Now it really was roasting as we walked on through the picturesque park...
But we did not stop for refreshments...
Instead we continued on...
...and, with the aid of yet another tram, ended up back at the city centre...
...and the market square...
...now cleared of the Bach stage...
The best apfelstrudel in the world was enjoyed, accompanied, rather extravagantly by both custard and ice cream...
...and beer and coffee...
..before we walked to the East Germany museum which had been closed before...
It detailed the revolution which took place here in 1989...
...along woth the numbers of people who fled to the West from 1945 till 1990...
Back out and, sorry, no idea who this is...
No, wait, it is, of course, one of Leipzig's most famous sons, the composer Richard Wagner...
Finally, home to the apartment for a rest...
...before, all too soon, heading out for our final dinner of the stay...
We took a walk through the nearby streets...
...passing on the way, some children who appeared...
...to be selling the contents of their homes perhaps...
Probably not...
Eventually, we found our target, in a converted railway station...
Bi Ba Bo in Plagwitz...
Beers were enjoyed...
...along with very tasty schnitzels...
...before a walk home in the lovely late evening light...
Tomorrow we head to Dresden...
Back in the car for the first time in a few days...
Highlight of the Day : A huge monument...
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