Prague by day, Salzburg by night

While Beth and I were exploring yesterday, we found a bagel restaurant. I haven't had a bagel in over 2 months so I was super excited. Since we wanted to use up all our crowns because we knew exchanging them back would be obnoxious, we each ordered a bagel and cream cheese and then pancakes to share. Both were delicious. 

We then went to Old Town square and walked around a bit. Our tour guide had pointed out a synagogue that is now a museum of drawings from the Jewish children taken from Prague and put into a concentration camp. We went to go see them and were shocked to also see that the inside of the synagogue was covered with the names of all the Jewish people from Prague who killed during the holocaust. There were so many names. The pictures were also very moving because the majority of the children who drew them did not live. It was sad to see. 

We then went to the Jewish cemetery. It was the only plot of land they were given to burry the dead. There were 12,000 tombstones literally stacked against each other like dominos but over 100,000 bodies. Eventually, there was no more room and they had to burry their dead elsewhere. The last body buried there I believe was in the 18000's. 

After this, we grabbed another bagel to take with us for lunch and headed to the bus station to catch our bus then train to Salzburg.

I really did like Prague. I loved how beautiful and ornate it was. Once again, it had a Disney like quality to it. The one thing I really did not like was the people. Our tour guide even told us that the people there aren't very friendly. I sort of don't blame them because there are a lot of tourists but at the same time, it would

be nice if they tried to be nicer. People in the train and metro station literally shoved our backpacks and us just because they were annoyed we were taking up room. We were also asked by every single security person to show them our tickets. That hasn't happened to me anywhere else. 

We took a charter bus followed by a train to Salzburg. The train was very nice, it had outlets and wifi. That wasn't quite enough for Beth though so she bought herself a bottle of wine but then decided to be a little classier than drinking it straight out of the bottle so she transfered it into a water bottle. It was quite the site. 

When we got to Salzburg, it was 9:00 at night so we checked into out hostile. It was pretty gross. It was filled with high school tour groups and just had a funky smell. We decided that we could suck it up though because Beth and I were only staying there for 2 nights. We went to a Mexican restaurant recommended to us by the front desk person at the hostile and then came back and went to sleep. Another successful backpacking day!