I forgot to mention a funny fact about our train ride from Prague to Vienna. Twenty feet from where we were sitting there was a group of definitely Czech ladies, and they had obviously killed their time waiting for the train by getting drunk. Once they boarded, they continued with their time killer. After a bit they started singing quite loudly, and it was downhill from there. Imagine a small gang (there were four or five) of older middle aged Russian opera sounding ladies singing their national anthem on repeat over and over. The main voice you hear in the video came from a lady that had three golden teeth. At one point, after a Czech guy walking past had decided to join, a couple started to dance. The singing and sporadic dancing didn't stop until we reached Vienna, which clocks it in at around two and a half to three hours of Czechoslovakian* golden oldies. It was pure torture, but I appreciate it for the funny story they gave us :D
*I should clarify: What was Czechoslovakia (Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia) split in 1993 into the Czech Republic, consisting of Bohemia and Moravia, and Slovakia, which became its own state. We went on a free tour of the inner city on our first full day in Prague, and we really learned a ton. I have a couple left over Czech Koruna that were minted in 1993, and when I put two and two together and realized that it was the first year the Czech Republic as we know it today existed, it really blew my mind. I have inaugural Czech currency!
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