Sunday, June 8, 2025
Check out was at 11am, so we made sure to get ourselves ready in time for another buffet. The buffet was good; there were eclairs and even liverwurst that I tried to get everyone to try. It was nice that we could order some extra food off the menu.
I saw these little cone cups a few other times, I think they're for transporting/holding sweet condiments?
After eating we packed up our things and checked out. We spent a while driving around Berlin so we could see the remnants of the Berlin Wall. We made a final pass by the Berlin Cathedral before driving several hours to Leipzig.
Part of the Berlin Cathedral was under construction.
Lots of the Berlin Wall still stands, but it is easily crossed.
In Leipzig was the Bach stuff that I wanted to see: St. Thomas’s Church and the Bach statue. There was a Bach museum across the street too. There must have been some festival going on; I couldn’t figure out exactly what. There were a bunch of Goths everywhere dressed in their weird black clothing, an orchestra on stage playing a medley of Lord of the Rings, and food stands everywhere. Our first stop was the Bach statue. It was a lot taller than I thought it would be. I got a couple of pictures, and then we went into the church to look around. We saw Bach’s grave, the old and new organs, and the Bach stained glass window. Then we visited the gift shop just outside the church. I got a few musical souvenirs.
A view of St. Thomas's Church from the front.
I found the statue of Felix Mendelssohn. I've never played his stuff before, only his sister's music, Fanny Mendelssohn. Where is her statue??
I've been wanting to see this statue for awhile! One of the big reasons I was excited to go to Germany!
Ian in front of the statue. Someday soon, he'll start playing Bach!
Bach played and tuned this organ the most.
The second organ was added later.
Bach's tomb
The center panel of this stain glass window has a picture of Bach.
Next, we toured the Bach Museum. It wasn’t very big, and most of the displays were audio. There was a display on modern songs that were based on Bach’s works, various instruments that Bach was familiar with, and many paper documents and compositions by Bach and his family members.
Bach had to account for which Sundays around Easter he needed to be ready to perform.
This exhibit in the museum was hands-on and fun for the kids.
We then drove about an hour to Zwickau where we ate dinner at the 50s ville Diner. It took us forever to find a parking spot. The food was good, but not great. I ordered the jalapeño popper burger. I ate just about all of it except most of the bun and a handful of fries.
The appetizer that tried to mimic American food. It fell short of what it intended but we've been spoiled with real American food,
My burger. It was alright.
There was a statue of Robert Schumann just outside of the restaurant. Where is Clara's statue??
After dinner, we checked into our Airbnb house and dragged the luggage up 3 flights of stairs. The house/condo was pretty neat and had character, and at the very tip top of the roof there was a room that Elisa slept in. The boys shared a room on the main floor. There were other condos beneath ours and next to it. Every half hour, chimes from a church down the road would ring out. I’m not sure if it rang out all night; we had the white noise machine on. I slept much better that night than the previous night. Looking out of the uppermost window of the airbnb.
A view from inside the aribnb on the top floor.
The Bach museum was interesting along with statues of famous composers. The American Diner didn't seem American enough for me. Our apartment upstairs had quite a bit of character and was nicer than I thought.
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