Our first stop this morning was at Meissen where we visited the porcelain museum. We had a guided tour which showed us the processes followed in creating Meissen products and then had a look around the amazing items in the museum.
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| In the Meissen museum |
From there we headed to Leipzig, where we were supposed to spend the night. We were quite taken with the number of wind turbines we passed.
However there is a dentist's convention in town and there was no room so we've come on to Halle, 50 km from Leipzig. We did a bus tour of Leipzig with a local guide and then walked around some of the old part of town. It is another interesting city and I was most impressed in driving around at some of the redevelopment with old communist factories turned into interesting apartment buildings. There were lovely canals and we also noticed quite a large number of community garden allotments - which we also noticed in Dresden. There is also a very nice city forest.
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In the background is the spire of St Nicholas church, which was at the centre
of the peaceful revolution to overthrow communism in 1989 |
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| The old Stock Exchange building, now a concert venue |
Alan and I walked through the city centre of Halle before dinner, and found an interesting town.
Porcelain and dentists! Somehow they seem linked.
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