My second and final day in Munich was one to remember. I had met a few interesting people the night before and decided to stick it out just a little longer in the land of the Third Reich. That final day I ended up going on 3 tours. A city sight seeing tour which was very informative on how the city and its rulers were formed and basically covered all of Bavaria. A Third-Reich tour which was the best tour of them all, I saw where the Nazi party was formed, where they held there meetings and even some of the buildings they had built during their reign. Munich bore the official title, Hauptstadt der Bewegung, the Capital of the Nazi Movement, and I learned all about the buildings that carry the secrets of a dark past. A Beer and Food tour which was actually somewhat boring but involved some beer tasting and some eating, so that made it all the better. I also hung out in the evening with some of the friends I had met there and did some of the Octoberfest stuff.

I then pushed on to Salzburg, Austria, this city was very beautiful. It was somewhat small but some of the older buildings were built into the rock cliffs along the mountain side. I even toured the castle that overlooked the city. It turned out to be more impressive on the outside than it was on the inside but it still had some nice artifacts to look at and offered a decent view of the city. The best part about Salzburg for me was the people I met, I stayed up fairly late that night talking with 2 guys from Australia and 2 girls from the US, each with their own story to tell. It was quite a fun evening.

I had met a few people along the way who kept telling me about how amazing Prague is. An american girl in Munich and a canadian couple in Salzburg both mentioned it. So I decided to point my compass northward instead of south to Italy. My decision to do so came with mixed results.

My train left at 4.40AM so what a joy it was waking up before 4. I then took a taxi to the train station where I was greeted by a train that looked like it was strait out of the Soviet Union from about 30 years earlier. The train had separate rooms with 6 chairs in total and I found myself alone in one of them. I got on and eventually found myself stretched out across 3 chairs sleeping. Around 7AM I heard a loud bang and my door flew open and a man was shouting in the hall. Holy Crap I said. I jumped up and didn´t know what to do really, so the man in uniform came to my room and was asking me something, It sounded russian but I didn´t have a clue what he said. Then I heard the word passport, that rung a bell, so he stamped it. Then eventually another soldier stamped my passport, then a trian conductor checked my ticket and eventually the train started going again. I guess we were at the Czech border, and they still somewhat hold onto some of those communist values. That was the first time during this trip that my passport was stamped. Seeing the farming villages and towns along the way seemed like we had just gone back in time about 3 or 4 decades, the poverty seemed very high compared to the places I had seen previously on the trip. We then made it into the Prague train station at 12.00 where I was greeted by a few different scheisters wanting to know if I needed accomodations. No thanks, I said. I made my way to an info booth where I met 2 Canadian girls who also rode the train with me and they had a lot of their luggage stolen. I´ve been keeping a fairly good eye on mine. Trust is not a word you can use as easily over here. The money they use here is Crowns and not Euro´s and its fairly hard to figure out how much it´s worth. I took out 2000 Crowns from the bank machine, I think thats about 75 bucks or something. Anyways, I couldn´t make out any words in the train station because it all looked Russian to me. Their seemed to be a fair bit of theiv´s or sheisters lingering around the train station, even the lady at the info booth told me not to trust them but I managed to find an internet Cafe where I was able to find a hostel. So I walked to it and checked in.

I then decided to go for a walk, about 6 hours later with my feet aching and my jaw stiff from it being dropped at awe all day I made it back. This city is one of shere amazment, I´ve seen Paris and Munich and Switzerland but this city by-far takes the cake for its beauty. I guess it was the wealthiest city in all of Europe around the 1800s or so before communism and it shows. Nearly every street you walk down you are amazed by the colouring, detailing, statues and achitecture adorning every building. It also has a number of magnificent museum´s, churches and other buildings I have yet to see. It is simply magnificent, their is also a fortress overlooking the city one that trumps the Salsburg castle by far. I really don´t want to leave the city, their seems to be so much to see here, I will likely go on a city tour later today to learn about its history. My first impression sort of made me want to get on another train out of there but it turned around completely and now I think this is the most beautiful city I have ever seen.

Sorry, no pictures. I will post them when I get back.