Evidence of Germany

Since my blog has been a bit poor in terms of photos recently I wanted to post a few to show that I haven't forgotten how. A couple of photos of lovely Leipzig are enough to show how it is a place full of fantastic contrast...

Between the very elegant, high culture side of the 16th to 19th centuries...



... as demonstrated by J W Goethe himself whose three (I think) years spent living in Leipzig are commemorated in this statue,

and the later, more industrial Leipzig shaped by the GDR and taken over by the hipster scene in more recent years...



Last but not least a quick picture of the rather minimal souvenirs that I brought back from Germany, of course sock yarn and East German confectionary were the obvious choices!



So there you go! See you soon ;o)