Brief stop in Frankfurt en route from Leipzig to Paris. Bought donuts.

Zoo day today. Leipzig zoo is meant to be one of the biggest and best zoos in Europe. It is well advertised here in Leipzig, and it is the #1 thing to do here on Trip Advisor, where it gets rave reviews. The reviewers can't have been to many zoos, because although it was very good and money well spent, it was not much bigger or better than Paignton Zoo. Most of the enclosures were excellent, the highlights being the elephants, the savannah plains, the aquarium ...

Train from Prague to Dresden, Dresden to Leipzig. Leipzig is noticeably smaller and less touristy than most of the places we have been to. There are fewer people that speak English here, so ordering a Burger King meal was always going to be disastrous. Arrived and proceeded to get lost trying to find the hostel. Turned out that it was a short walk on the main road from the station. Room is big and fairly empty, but very clean. Short walk to town centre, which...