Monday 9th August
On a very rickety train so that's the reason my writing is messy.
We got up half an hour late this morning so wolfed down breakfast and got to the train station just in time. The train was already at the platform and looked worringly old and rusty, but we got on sortof excitedly. The excitement heightened when we discovered the carriages were split into compartments, as in Harry Potter, with red leather bench seats.
We found an empty one and got settled. Two guys who were also going to Ceske Budejovice came along and joined us, and we chatted on the way to Olbramovice. We couldn't figure out what language they spoke to each other, and assumed it was Czech. At one point the ticket woman came along, so we showed her our passes and the guys showed her their tickets. She spoke a lot of Czech to them very fast, and they nodded and agreed. When she left we looked at the guys, waiting for a translation. They laughed and said 'no idea what she said'. We decided we'd just follow everyone else if anything happened. At Obramovice people started getting off and then the woman came back along the corridor and shouted at us to 'change! autobus!'. We followed everyone walking off the train and across the tracks to a convoy of rail replacement buses.
From a sign at the station we decided that the tracks were being redone. They had started this project in August 2009 and planned to finish by 2013. The bus only took us to the next station - Sudemerice u Tabora - and then we got on another train. Again, after crossing the tracks, we found a compartment and all got settled once again. We're running ten minutes late so we may be running to the next train at Ceske Budejovice.
I'll have to write the rest of Prague later, as this train is far too jumpy.
Stride like the rooster!
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