Leipzig, Germany, August 2021
I decided that it’s time I joined Becky in her Monday habit of sharing a portrait. This man seemed deep in thought, sitting just over the road from the Hauptbahnhof, with a street art embellished building site behind him.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 23 August 2021
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Travel with Intent 
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Wonderful capture of him Debbie. Looks like quite the wall behind him 😀 😀
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Did you see much of Leipzig, Debbie? Years since I visited, very briefly
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I was brief too. Just did a day trip. Would like to go back and stay a night or two. It has a young and vibrant feel to it. There’s an area on the water where factories and warehouses have been turned into art workshops and the like. I didn’t have time to get out there. And the weather wasn’t encouraging either.
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I would love to go back….that area on the waters sounds interesting……the GDR was filled with gloomy, polluting factories, and the area around Halle, not a million miles from Leipzig had some bad stats for lung disease
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The only bit of GDR I got to see before unification was East Berlin. But I can imagine what it was like.
You came still see hints of the past in the architecture, and when talking to people of course, but otherwise I don’t think it’s obvious.
I haven’t had time to review my photos yet but I’ll share some soon.
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I didn’t see the GDR before unification, but three years after, so so very little had changed then. When we returned 8 years later, the difference was palpable
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