Hello travel day.

Today we had a seven hour train ride from Salzburg to Prague broken up with a sprint to catch a connecting train in Linz. We made it. No worries.

To describe our seats on the train I need you to imagine you are Harry Potter. Got it? Okay. So there are all of these rooms with glass doors and the sun is shining in through the windows backlighting everything so you can’t really see how many people are in each room (although really Harry never had this problem, lucky duck). So you finally just open a door and you find your best friend forever.

Actually in our case we found to lovely older gentlemen who assured us we were in the right place. Oh right. I forgot to tell you. Sometimes you don’t have to reserve seats so you just wander until you find seats that are unoccupied and fingers crossed, not reserved.

We spent about an hour with them, before they both departed and we had the room to ourselves. For like three hours we lived out our Harry Potter dreams. And although we didn’t have chocolate frogs we did have some chocolate from Mrs. Stoltman (thank you!!).

We were then joined by some rather stinky men (cigarette stench not body odor thank goodness!) and then by an off duty train ticket man and a very chatty woman. Unclear if they knew each other.

Finally we arrived in Prague. We bought a temporary pass to take the metro to our hostel. Our roommates are super nice and a bunch of them are from the states.

We had dinner down the street and returned to plan for the next day. We also did laundry which took us close to two hours. Whew. That was a pain but definitely needed to be done.

Tomorrow we explore Prague and I buy new socks!