Required Jumping Photo

Required Jumping Photo

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

From quaint to contemporary

Today was mostly a traveling day. We only had about an hour to walk around Prague before needing to leave for the train station. I had read about a chandelier being given to a church by Nicholas II and was convinced that it was St. Nicholas' Cathedral. We walked across town and across St. Charles' Bridge only to find an entry fee and no chandelier (we didn't pay to go in because the person had no idea what i was talking about when i mentioned a chandelier). I later found out that it was actually located in St. Nicholas' CHURCH. But i also found out that the cathedral we briefly visited has an organ that Mozart played on. just fyi :)
anyways...because of the long trek across town, we had to rush to the train station only to find out that we were an hour too early (i had read a time for a bus which isn't what we wanted...i'm still learning). We relaxed on the grass out front and took the train to Munich. Fortunately, everything went according to plan. At one point, the guy checking our tickets kept telling me we needed to get off at the next stop, but according to our schedule, we weren't supposed to get off for another 2 hours! When we arrived at that stop, EVERYONE in the car started getting up and leaving. We followed the crowd to a different train where we resumed our ride to Munich. We merely needed to change trains but language differences often make a little change very confusing! :) Conveniently, our hostel turned out to be about a minute's walk from the station! We had dinner at a great place that felt medieval. They served us literally half of a chicken, and if so desired, about a liter of beer.
After dinner, we explored and walked to the Konigsplatz. What we found was three large Greek buildings and surprisingly, a concert attended by several university students. Steve and I sat on the grass to enjoy the music and atmosphere for a little while then headed back.
We noticed there are a lot of young people here (must be a university town) and a TON of bikes everywhere. Tomorrow we are headed to another castle (neuschwanstein) that looks absolutely beautiful! I can't post pictures tonight and tomorrow night we'll probably be on a train all night so maybe the next day :)

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