This can be a sort of catch-all journal for 24-26.09.
24th I travelled from Cesky Krumlov to Prague on the bus. It was nice to know where I was going in Prague. I did some errands and bought a fleece for the trip North. It is VERY cozy and warm.
25th I travelled from Prague to Berlin. The train station announcements in Prague play the Vltava theme after each announcement. Customs checks were kinda stereotypical: The Czech guy looked at me once, stamped my passport on the final page and passed it off to the German guy. The German guy looked at me and my passport at least twice, found the next available box and stamped my passport. The Germans also checked my ticket at least twice. Announcements were interesting too, from Prague to the border they were given in Czech - English - German. After the border they were given in German -English. The Czech staff did get off the train just over the border, still, it was interesting that there were no more in Czech. The Czech Republic is such a beautiful country. It is kind of like the North East US if you took out the houses and put back the farms. The same kind of trees grow and there are the lower, older mountains. Maybe it's like the Mid-West, I've never really been there. Closer to the German border it's like Colorado with deciduous trees.
26th I travelled from Berlin to Barth. There are tons of sheep and windmills for miles and miles. The town is very cute and I have a private bathroom! On the train was a huge school group, maybe about 7th grade. Two pretty dorky looking boys sat across from me and this big guy with a Matrix-style leather coat and huge boots with buckles all over them sat next to them. They were whispering to each other with big eyes, I only heard "Schue". And there was a business man who bobbed his head to the little tune they played before each station announcement.
Random Trivia: Did you know Prague is the largest Czech city, followed by Chicago?
I'm watching tv shows I can't understand. Saw "The Simpsons" ("Die Simpsons"... I know it's an article, it just looks like, well, "die"!) dubbed in Deutsch. Lisa sounded like Lisa, nobody else did. "Doh!" was translated as "Nein!".
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