Pfingsten - Pentacost

Last weekend was pentacost and that means a long three day weekend. On Friday we went to Leipzig, about 150 miles west. Pe and Axel were at a concert and Ted and I roamed the town. At the same time there was the biggest Goth-Wave-Festival in Europe (if not in the world) in town - therefor there were like black dressed people everywhere. I know Leipzig a bit, so I could tell Ted some things. First we visited the train station - one of the biggest in Europe that is quite impressive. The town itself is very nice, lots of old buildings and little passage ways with fancy shops, a very very nice old town hall on the market place and two famous churches. We wandered around for a couple of hours, did some shopping - Ted got an Lokomotive Leipzig Sweater, what is the local 5th league Soccer club but beloved by all Leipzigern. And now my whole family, who is a big fan, too, loves him even more - and we enjoyed the town a lot.
Ted also liked that we took public transportation from the hotel, that was a bit outside, into the city center. On the way back to the hotel we had a group of rather drunk kids, that were very loud and in my opinion enoying - Ted had a lot of fun and couldn't stop grinning.

The next day, Saturday we left early in the morning and did a tour through the "Muldental" (The valley of the river Mulde). We visited two castles and climbed up on one of the oldest castles in Saxony. We had an incredible view over the countryside. We drove through neat little villages and towns and lots of fields with wheat and barley. The last stop was the Rochlitzer Berg. A little hill famous for its red granite.

The next two days we were in the garden with Pe and Axel and didnt do much. On Sunday Ted and I drove into town and had a little walk through the old town. Unfortunatly it started to rain and storm and we couldn't go to the Zoo to say "Hey" to the penguins. On monday, still a holiday, Oma and Opa came out for coffee and cake. We finished every night with games and alcohol.

Monday night Ted and I went back to town, mostly because the bed at the garden is not very comfortable and I was getting a stiff neck.

Today Ted went with Axel to Czech Republic, for gas and beer and other groceries and had a great time. Later on we got out the bikes (about 20 years old and very uncomfortable) and did as the locals do and drove into town to the mall.

Tomorow we will go by train to Dresden - more about that later.

Photos are not updated yet - I still dont know how to do the wireless internet here and the photos are on my computer and on Teds I need to put them on Pe's to upload them from here.