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There are several youth hostels in Leipzig. There is one about a mile out of the city. It's easily walkable, just head out left from the train station's main entrance, and follow the road round to the right. Keep walking past a head shop, and take a left, then a right on a street that runs parallel. Keep walking to the end of the road, then turn left over the bridge over the train tracks. After you've walked over the train tracks, there's an interesting little village made up of wendy houses. Walk through this, heading to the far corner. Turn right, and walk parallel with the train tracks. You should she an old pub in the middle of an HLM type housing estate. Make a note of it, because it does fantastic food. Carry on for about another 200 yards, then hang a left. The youth hostel is on the left, just on a small service road.
== Public transport / Blackriding - Riding with and without a ticket ==
''the information below does not apply to the S-Bahn city train. See [[Deutsche Bahn]] instead''
Getting caughtwithout a ticket:
* fine is 40 EUR, payable by bank transfer in about 10 days
* I don't know if there are special rules if you possess a non-German ID
Anyway...
* Ticket machines outside trams give you unstamped tickets
* You can invalidate validate existing tickets in both trams and busses, the machines ''beep'' when you do so (''check if there is a ticket stamping machine in the rear of the bus, AFAIR that's usually the case but better make sure'')
* Inside most trams, there's a ticket machine that gives you a stamped ticket (''just hanging around there won't serve as excuse if you're controled'')
* Bus drivers also sell stamped tickets
* You could buy a (short range, if you're on low money) ticket and keep it unstamped
* Most transportation rules for German public transport are along the lines that you have to present a valid ticket if you're asked to do so (''I have not checked specifically for Leipzig'')
* '''You need to get the ticket stamped ''before'' the traffic control reaches you'''
* If you did, you can (and should) argue that you just forgot to stamp it before and have a valid ticked nonetheless- the tourist act sometimes works
* After 8pm, you might usually need to get in busses buses at the first door front and (then) show your ticktet to the bus drivers are supposed to check tickets(?)driver
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