Day One: Wed. June 4th -Dessau

Before we even came to Germany we bought a Germany train pass that would give us 5 days of travel within in a month period...so we plotted for awhile on how we wanted to spent at least some of that traveling time. We finalized our plans in the late spring and embarked on a nine day trip on Wed. June 4th.

On the first day we got on a train early in Berlin and made our way toward Leipzig via Dessau. Our main destination during our day stop is Dessau (about 2 hours outside of Berlin) was the Bauhaus, a famous art and design school started by architect Walter Gropius and based there in the late 20's. This school is possibly the most influential force behind subsequential developments in everything from architecture to typography throughout the 20th century, both in Europe and the US.







After touring the in-house Bauhaus Museum, we made our way around to the 'Master's Houses' designed by Gropius and others and stopped by the building below across from the train station, Umweltbundesamt...a government building that houses the library, an exhibition space, and offices. It is possibly my new favorite building.





We then got back on the train and headed the rest of the way (another hour or so) to Leipzig.