Leipzig/hypezig pt.I

One Saturday morning last fall, my Dresden companions and I made a little trip to Leipzig for the day. I'd been once before (for an unforgettable night/morning at IfZ... more on that in a different blog post, maybe), but I needed to go back. I didn't really have a functioning camera the first time I went, and I could only see so much of the city on 0 hours of sleep.

My goal that day was to wander around and see as much art as I could. Leipzig is a really beautiful, sparse, and spread-out city -- a place I feel I could go back to a lot. We started the day walking from the train station in the general direction of Plagwitz, a historically industrial neighbourhood where a bunch of art stuff is concentrated.

These buddies were slipping around on the ice in Clara-Zetkin park. We probably spent a good 20 minutes watching them along with a 5-year-old kid and his mom.



One of many cool elderly Leipzigers exercising early in the morn.



We finally got out of the park and made our way westward through the canals.







After a cake break, we stumbled across a lil' holiday market.





Eventually we made it to the Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, a massive "reclaimed" cotton factory complex.













We spent the evening at a bar called Kune on Eisenbahnstraße (about which countless articles have been written), on the other side of town. Few bars have made me feel so comfy, for real. I had a delicious beer called Bubi Helles, and we called it a night.