We just had a looooooooonnnnggggg night. Again....like a bad ash laila. I almost dont have the energy to write this but we cant check into our room for another hour, so we need to pass the time and we dont ahev enough energy to try and explore the city. We got to the train station on time and waited at the platform as usual. Our train was a night train that stopped a few times in the netherlands, a few times in germany, at prague and then it was to continue to krakow and then moscow or something, so as you can imagine it was a veryyyyy long train. We knew our seats were number 53 and 54, but we didnt know which car we were in so we got in the last one (stupidly). We later figured out that we got on in car 204 and we were supposed to be in car 174 (dont worry, there werent actually 30 cars, there were more like 10) and we had to walk to our car INSIDE of the train. I dont know if youve been in european trans before, but the hallway that you can walk through is les than 2 feet wide, so if another person is walkng towards you, it is really hard to get around them and you have to sort if switch places, which is extra complicated when you have luggage. When you get to the end of a hall in a car, you have to go inbetween cars, which is annoying because there are automatic doors that you have to open to get out of one car and then another door to get into the next, but the doors close on you after like 5 seconds which got exhausting.
However, after walking through like 8 cars we finally got to our seats, which are 6 seats, 2 rows of 3 facing eachother, in a little room. rach and i had the middle seats and were across from eachother. the people who had the window seats were a cute nice dutch couple that we spoke to for a bit, but were kinda quirky. the other 2 guys in our cabin were really weird looking rocker stoner guys with like army green cargo shorts and olive t shirts with greasy long blonde hair in a ponytail going through the back of basball caps who brought with them each a 6-pack of heineken for the ride and didnt even sit in our little cabin for the whole time...who knows where they went, we were just happy because it allowed us to kinda of half lay down across their seat.
The beginning of the ride was fun beacuse for a little bit it was only Rach and I in the whole 'tzrif' (jokes) and we were looking at the cows and sheeps and farmland we were passing. Rachel noted that on one of the fields we passed "the cows look like they're sitting in a chet!"
Neither of us got much sleep...it was very on and off...but if you added it all together it might equal about 4 or 5 hours...(keep in mind that we were on the train for 15 hours). I have to say, getting up and stretching our legs when we finally reached our destination was one of the best feelings ever.
We got out of the train, got some crowns (czech money) from an ATM and then took the subway to our hostel, however our room isnt cleaned yet so we cant go in it yet so we are chillin in the lobby, thirsting for a nice bed and a drop of sleep. Our plan right now is to get in our beds as soon as possible and nap for hopefully less than 4 hours, then shower and go walk around a bit, grab dinner and then get a looooonnngggg sleep tonight so we can do A LOT tomorrow.
oy. tiredness.
-sleepy ZZZzzzzzzoe
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