Got into Berlin this morning. Can anyone explain this to me: There was no smoking allowed in my cabin. But there was smoking allowed in the halls of my cabin, and the door wasn’t even a ‘full’ door, so smoke could freely enter the cabin from all over the car. Also, the windows in the cabin didn’t open, so I ended up riding a smokey, stuffy cabin the whole way there. But that isn’t the weird thing. The weird thing is that on the way to Budapest from Prague, there was no smoking allowed anywhere on the train. And you could open the windows.
Mark and Brenden have decided to stay in Prague for its inaugeration into the EU tomorrow. It only just occured to me that this inaugeration is taking place on May Day. Things could get crazy. I’m told that things get rather crazy here as well.