Just a brief one, because this keyboard is German, stiff, and I have to stand up… (Not to mention pay 50 cents a minute..) Man Prague was nice. Actually, it was fairly nice, but so cheap that it was great. The expense of Germany has already made up for it though, I’m sure.<\/p>\n
I was going to spend Saturday in Prague then head to Berlin Sunday morning, but the main reason I was staying was to go on what was supposedly a really good walking tour of the city. The guy canceled it and moved it to Sunday, but I didn’t want to stay in Prague until Monday, so I just left Saturday afternoon for Berlin.<\/p>\n
I exchanged email with Chris before I left, he\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds heading to Berlin Monday or Tuesday, but I probably won’t seem him, and he\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds headed to Rome after that.<\/p>\n
The train station in Prague was annoying. Actually, I think I was feeling annoyed in general. Two guys stood behind counters with no lines behind them, and one woman stood behind another counter with a huge line behind her, only they don’t know how to stand in line in the Czech Republic, so it was a huge mass of people fighting for attention. Everyone, including me, who asked one of them men behind the counter for something, pointed us at the “line”. I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm not sure what the difference was because I can\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt read Czech. I finally pushed, shoved and fought my way to the front, with much better success than the poor Englishmen who were trying to behave themselves in a que while the Czechs and I were rude. I bought a ticket to the edge of the border where my Eurail pass would work again, and unfortunately a Mexican guy overheard me. It was only unfortunate, I think, because I was feeling easily annoyed.<\/p>\n
You going to Berlin, he asks me. Yes, on the next train, and it costs 156 krowns. (a whopping 4 bucks) I wandered around looking for a decent place to grab food in 10 minutes, and only found mediocre looking sandwiches for a mediocre price. It tasted less than mediocre. Annoying. While buying it, the Mexican seems to have taken me for lost, rather than hungary, and asked if I knew where it was leaving. I didn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt, I hadn’t looked on the board yet and told him so. It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds on 3 he tells me. Annoying. I find the track, get on, and sit in a smoking car with obvious non-smokers. You learn to find the non-smokers in a smoking car quickly when trains are fairly full, you hate smoke in a train car, and really hate sitting in a compartment with 5 or 7 other smelly people, one of which is an idiot that smokes anyway. After a few hours, the Mexican guy, his name is Carlos I find out later, knocks on my window. He wants to know when we have to switch trains. We don\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt, I tell him. Yes we do, he tells me. I check the sign on the car, it says Hamburg through Berlin, and show him my cook time table as well, and tell him we’ll get in at 1914. I think really wanted someone to travel with, but I just wanted to be alone.<\/p>\n
I get off the train, buy a phone card, can\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt find an unoccupied working phone, and decide to head to the hostel I was thinking of staying at when Carlos guy finds me. I explain the S-Bahn (elevated train which is free with a Eurail) and U-bahn, subway which is not free. He doesn’t understand, but follows me anyway. At the station where I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdd have to walk from we call hostels and find out they\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdre all booked except the expensive ones. He goes to an expensive one. I decide to camp.<\/p>\n
The camping is listed in Let\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds Go (my travel guide) way the heck south of Berlin, but an S-bahn line goes there, so I hop on. About a half hour later, I get off, and Let’s Go says to walk back between the train station and the lake. I don’t know what THAT means, never figure out, and no one there had any clue where camping is. I found a really neat little stretch of grass with a walkway by the lake though, walked along it for awhile, found an empty spot and rolled out my sleeping bag. I didn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt know if I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdd be harassed or have to move, so I didn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt pitch the tent. I was chilly, but once I zipped my bag up all the way, I was warm and cozy and slept fine. Cheaper than anywhere I’ve slept yet.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdm in a Hostel tonight for about 14 dollars and will get a shower, which is nice. I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdd tell you about my day in Berlin, but people are waiting for this and I\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdve spent 3 bucks, so, until next time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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