Tschau Tschüssi is the best place to shop in town: shirts, bags, furniture and design junk, all made by young artists and designers. I found very cute shirts for my little niece, with the picture of a fairytale forest. A real treasure trove! Sometimes they host concerts or exhibitions.

MO – FR: 10 – 20H SA: 11 – 18H WINDMÜHLENSTRASSE 29 LEIPZIG
www.tschau-tschuessi.de/
www.haenselandgretel.de/

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This little communal cafe has a nice variety of non-alcoholic and alcoholic cocktails and a very alternative, lefty and studenty atmosphere; it doubles up as a little bit as a community centre, arthouse cinema, theatre and concert hall and event space.

The group associated with it also organises some of the best fun events of the city: the bathtub regatta, the soapbox derby, the naTo-cup (football), Bollywood in Leipzig and has also been caring for the restoration of the historic GDR advert 'Löffelfamilie'; which shows a family eating soup (donations urgently needed).

It's a fantastic little venue with cult status and as one of my favourite places only suitable for nice, friendly, open-minded, easy-going and in general just lovely people.

Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 46
04275 Leipzig,
Germany

telephone: 0049/0 341 3014398
E-mail: info@nato-leipzig.de
Web: www.nato-leipzig.de/english.php

Several trams are just stopping in front of it. Can't remember which ones, but all which go to "Connewitzer Kreuz".

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The south of Leipzig, a former opencast mining area, has been flooded over the last ten years and turned into a series of relaxing lakes. Cospudner is the first of these.
Hire a bike in the city, and cycle the 20 mins through the wonderful parks and forest to the lake, where you can take a dip in the water, and have lunch at the harbour, or even cycle the 10 km around the lake

Tourist office, ask for a city map

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A cafe, bar and restaurant tucked just 50 metres away from the maddening crowd and central city tourist mayhem. It’s a hangout for students, artists and writers... with a sprinkling of business people lunching together.

Read newspapers in any language, or work on your laptop. They have free WLAN, so it's deal for hanging out while working online, just surfing, or even reading the Guardian! The menu is good and reasonably priced. Breakfasts are excellent, however the coffee is the typical German barely-tolerable lukewarm stuff… try to think of it as something else and put up with it. Having said that, it’s still one of the city’s top (secret) locations.

It's between the end of Barfussgässchen (where all the tourists and village Germans go) and the main ring road. Walk towards the Stasi Museum (worth visiting!) and you´ll find Telegraph on the right.

Dittrichring 18-20;
tel: 0341.149 49 90;
www.cafe-telegraph.de

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