First Day Adventures

Prague

Prague

Leipzig

Leipzig

Today we landed in Prague (Prag), Czech Republic at around noon.  From there, we enjoyed the city for a few hours while we waited for our train.  We saw the town square (where my brother and I played our violins) and ate at a traditional Czech restaurant and brewery where we tried a creation called "beer cheese".  It had the taste and texture of French camembert, but smelled like a three-year-old gym bag.  This cheese may not have been the highlight of our culinary adventures so far, but it was certainly interesting to try.   We also tried potato dumplings and goulash, two traditional Czech foods.

When it was time to get on our train, we boarded, and headed to Leipzig.  The station where we arrived was Europe's largest end-line train station, meaning that the trains only went in and out one end of it.  In that train station, there was also a Holocaust memorial very similar to the one that students built in Whitwell, Tennessee.  The rails that are part of the memorial where the last rails to carry Jews (169 men, woman, and children) off to concentration camps from Leipzig a few weeks before the end of WWII (1945).  The cars on display, however, where built during the DDR period, following WWII, when East Germany was under Communist rule.