Papers Please- onto stop #2

Beth and I woke up on Monday morning and headed to Munich's city center. We dropped our bags off at the lockers in the train station and then went exploring. Parts of downtown Munich that survived the bombings were very pretty. It's really odd to think that WWII actually happened here. Bombs were dropped where we stood, houses destroyed and lived lost. Sometimes when we learn about things in school, it's easy to think that it happened so long ago or in such a far off place that when you're actually standing where events did occur, it's a little surreal. I suppose that's how I felt at Dachau too. 

Anyways, we walked around downtown, went to an outdoor market for breakfast, and poked our heads into a few churches. Around noon, we headed back to the train station with some snacks and mini wine bottles to catch our almost 6 hour train to Prague. 

We finally found some seats and chatted and ate our gummies. We were in a 6 person compartment but luckily after about an hour, it was just Beth and I. Suddenly we heard the door open and these two men in uniforms with guns came in. They started speaking to us in German and I am sure Beth and I both had a "deer in the headlights" sort of look. We both sort of looked at each other and then they said in English, "German police. We need your papers and passports." Few! We were so relieved. We let them see them and then they left. It was a very odd experience and somewhat terrifying as well.  

I slept on the train while Beth kept watch over our things and then we made it to our next stop, Prague. Our first task was to exchange money because they don't use the Euro. It's about 24 crowns to one Euro so I felt rich... That is until I ordered a 200 crown meal. Even though that's relatively cheap, only 8 euro, it was odd to see all the prices so high.

We found our hostile, which was nice but a bit older feeling than our last one and then walked to dinner. The hostel was located steps from the Charles Bridge so it was in a great location. We walked through downtown a bit before coming back and calling it a night. Prague sure did look beautiful though and I was excited to see it in the daylight.