We attended the guided tour of Leipzig. We're recent migrants to Leipzig from Australia and figured…read moreit would give us a feel for our new home. The tour costs a very affordable 15€ and includes a one hour walking tour then two hours on a bus (without stops). The afternoon tours are often in German and English (my Deutsch is beginner level) and the tour leader speaks first in German then English.
The walking tour is around the city centre and shows a range of architecture, monuments and sites of interest. Enjoyable with plenty of tips for places to visit in the future.
We then popped on a rather comfy coach for a two hour trip around Leipzig. The tour leader didn't stop talking once! A running commentary is indeed what you get. As someone who teaches workshops I was greatly in awe of her stamina. We saw neighbourhoods where the rich people live, sites of gentrification, a lovely refurb of a warehouse into loft apartments over a canal and of course landmarks of note like statues, monuments, libraries, galleries etc.
My main criticism is that I would have like to hear more about the women of Leipzig (Wagner, Goethe et al are celebrated with pride) but this more a fault of modern history than the tour itself.
Further, as the only person on the tour who didn't speak much German, I generally got a sentence to everyone else's paragraph. I had an earache all week and didn't have the greatest head for facts and figures so I wasn't bothered, but some may be.
