so our train ride was a little intresting. when we decided to travel it was in our minds that languages would be different everywhere, but the austrian german(a dialect of german that has different parts of languages ranging from the czech republic, slovakia, hungary, italy, slovenia, liechtenstein, and switerland) is slightly different from the german spoken in germany. none the less, and probablly no need to mention it, but its very difficult to understand some say, and even more difficult to understand when you don't even know the language.

but back to the train ride.

we were scheduled to leave at 7:51, and we did. we were also to stop in florence, which we also did, but there we picked up the last of the people that were to be in our cabin on the train.

here is a description of the people in our cabin:

mike and leanne:
that's us.

the two austrian girls:
they were very interesting. also very "bulky" they looked like they were just big girls with muscles and hairy arms (one of them had really hairy arms) and just talked in deutsch and laughed alot. one of them kept blowing her nose(correction for leanne: honking her nose) the entire train ride.

the smelly old guy:
when we say smelly, we don't mean old man smelly, which isn't to bad to deal with, but smelly as in like body odor as if you have just run the boston marathon twice and not showered for a week.

the rude third austrian girl:
this girl was the kicker. she comes into the compartment when we stop in florence, 2 hours after we have started our trip, and about and hour after we have all layed down on our bunks. the two austrian girls had the top bunks, leanne was on one of the middle one, and mike and the smelly guy were on the two lower bunks. anyways. when she comes in mike is half asleep but she says to him "81" mike in a half asleep, half awake state says to her "yes this is the cabin for 81 to 86." she more forcefully say to him "no that is 81" gesturing to the bunk that he has already put all his sheets on and has already been asleep for an hour on and makes him move. them she procedes to throw her bags all over eveyones stuff, smashing the bread and crossiants that we packed for breakfast. then after she has been exceedingly rude she takes over the compartment. every one is reading and she turns off the lights then slams the door closed and then begins to read "the trilogy of death."