Day 6: from Leipzig to Grimma - how to shop cheaply

This morning we're going sightseeing in Leipzig. After breakfast we're visiting Johann Sebastian Bach in St. Thomas Church, together with lots of Asian tourists who are keen to take photos.

Shortly afterwards we go to the department store (shoe covers...!), for the sake of convenience we want to take the elevator from the 4th floor, the door opens, we get in, the door closes - and nothing happens.

After an hour and several carefully chosen "friendly" conversations with the elevator company that provides the service, we are "saved" and receive two vouchers from Kaufhof.

The funny thing is that a simple key (e.g. square) is sufficient to open the elevator doors from the outside, but the Kaufhof staff are not allowed to do this because these things are "outsourced".

This may be financially lucrative and plausible from an insurance perspective, but it is full of bureaucracy and is rather modest from the customer's point of view.

But with vouchers in your pocket, you can start shopping easily 😉

Afterwards, on our daughter's advice, we visited the house of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Everyone is allowed to wave the baton there.

At the town festival (you can clearly hear songs by Bon Jovi and Europe in the background - no Bach or Mendelssohn) we had a quick snack of processed vegetables and then it was time to say goodbye to Leipzig. We saddled up our bikes and two thunderstorms on the way to Grimma could only hold us back for a short time.

In Grimma itself, people practiced building walls to protect the beautiful old town from the threat of flooding in the Mulde: