Two Days = Two Countries

Well we started our rapid fire tour of as far east in Europe as we would make it by a Czech woman coming and asking if we were going to Prague. When we said yes, she handed us a card reading " Dear Passengers, I am sorry to inform you this train will only be going to Pilzen today. Please try and change there." Oh great, stuck in some small czech town with no clue what to do. On the other side of the card it said 18:08, so we assumed this ment we were going to be changing onto another train at 18:08. We were right, so we boarded the next train and headed for Prague. When we got there we had no ability to read any of the signs telling us how to get to the tram, so we went to the info desk and the guy helped us a little with his broken english. The train station in Prague does not give it a very good first impression. It was covered in grafitie and had very shady people hanging out all around it. We got on the tram and headed for our hostel and the look of the area was not much better. We found the hostel and rang the door bell next to our hostel's name. A guy came and let us in and we found out we had to unlock 4 doors in order to get to our room. Safe right...

After we put our stuff up we went around the corner and had a great dinner. This is where it started looking up. After dinner we went back and went to bed early due to the fact we had been going all day. The next morning we got up and head for the city center to see the sights. The day started really early and with a light drizzle, but started looking better as the day went on. For the first few hours we just walked around on our own then took a free tour in the afternoon, the city was pretty and cool at first, but then when we took the tour we apriciated the city alot more. After the tour we went back for dinner at the same place as the night before. The food there was soo good and soo cheap.

The next day we left on a train for Salzberg at 7am for our 16 hour stay in Salzberg.

Salzberg was so beautiful. It was everything you would expect the Sound of Music town to be like. While there we went up to an old fotrest and saw Motzarts birth place. Besides this we just walked around the town and ate another great dinner. We had to hit the sack early again due to our 6am departure time for Interlaken.

Again, sorry about the unedited typos, internet is expensive in Interlaken.

Cheers,

Michael