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i have been to leipzig, it really suits football in its environment.

I'm an Englishman who's lived in Germany for 4 years and is married to a girl from Leipzig. The city, despite its run-down areas on the periphery, is a very majestic city where the people are, in the main, very friendly. Gottschiedstraße or the Dralliwatsch (main area for bars etc) are the places to go. Despite its DDR past (during which most schoolchildren learnt Russian) the locals do speak English and there is a British shop in the downtown area - just get ready for the prices though - over GBP3.00 for 25 Tea Bags!! During the World Cup, the city has lives bands playing in the Market Square and huge screens have been erected. My advice - visit Leipzig!

I spent a semester in Leipzig (in 1997) and loved it. There's a Stasi museum there and the city was where the 'Monday Demonstrations' started that began to tear down the DDR.

If the DDR hadbn't happened Frankfurt wouldn't be the business centre it is today. Leipzig was once where all the major trade fairs took place and my understanding is that after the division of Germany the West Germans had to find somewhere else and lit upon Frankfurt, which still has a small town feel.

Leipzig University has seen some of the biggest names in German history study there such as Goethe (he described it as a 'Little Paris', which is a bit ambitious, and set a scene from Faust in a restaurant there, the Auerbachskeller); Nietzsche; and Leibnitz. Bach also based himself there in the Thomaskirche.

The Moritzbastei is indeed an awesome bar set in the old city foundations and popular with students.

The city is not too big and not too small and has a gigantic railway station building - one of the biggest in the world.

Mein Leipzig lob ich mir...

This is now my official board since nobody else uses it, feel free to talk about anything you want provided it is about this lovely city

I wonder what this board is hanging around for? I mean, Chris Russell and his cohorts will eventually have to bin it, tacitly admitting it was a far, far more stupid move that putting your life savings in Betamax shares - but how are they going to do it?

Wait for "a good day to bury bad news"....?

Well, perhaps they're not that bright really.....last Saturday would have been a good time.




Oh, I'm going to so enjoy it when they shamefacedly try to sneak these boards off the internet when nobody is looking......especially as we can recall old threads at any time with a appropriate link!