Lesson painfully learned: figure out which public transportation gets you where you need to go on time, then take the one before that one! Getting from our Airbnb to Hauptbahnhof for our train to Prague was a stressful endeavor — we got on the train by the skin of our teeth, printing the ticket on the platform at 9:01am for a 9:03am departure with Mark straddling train and platform in desperation (much to the chagrin of the German conductor who thankfully helped us out of sheer pity for our sweaty and stressed selves).
Once aboard, we encountered a new type of seating configuration: a 6-person cubicle with 3 seats on each wall facing each other. Rather than be crammed in this small space with the extraordinary amount of luggage carried on by our cubicle companions, we opted for the dining car, where we spent the entirety of the 5-hour ride playing Hanabi and enjoying our first sips of Czech beer, Staropramen Dark.
