Saturday 23 April 2011

Good Friday service and Contemporary (GDR) history

We started our day with a very quick breakfast at a bakery and then went to Nikolaikirche for the 9.30am service which included the Shűtz Johannes-Passion.

Following that we had coffee and cake at a nice café and then we had a wander around Leipzig.  We went to see the contemporary history museum (Zeitgeschichtliches Forum) and learned a lot about the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1949-1989 and how much it tried to control people lives and quash resistance and opposition.

Later we ate lunch at a little Italian place called Cafe Pascucci.  We shared a flammkuchen (like a pizza) and some salad.

We came back to the hotel fairly early in the afternoon for a rest.  In the evening we went and ate in a little restaurant close to the hotel called Lulu Lottenstein we ate fairly typical German fayre then went for a wander along Karl-Liebknecht Straße and finished up having a last drink in a bar called naTo.

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