In Prague, you can buy a pint of beer for around $2.00. And I’m not talking a Bud or Miller Light kind of beer. I’m talking a top-quality, world-renown pint of happiness. It’s a point of pride for Czech people, and I can see why. After getting off our first, one-way train, exhausted, thirsty, hungry, and schooled, finding that those fabled prices were true helped get us back on the right foot. Prices are low in the Czech Republic in general, and the beer definitely takes the cake. Unfortunately, not all prices in Europe are this low. In Oslo, we wanted to grab a quick bite of lunch our first…
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Learning the Ropes
It was 6:30 in the morning, and we were sprinting across Krakow as fast as our double-backpacks would let us. Despite the panic, we were feeling the thrill of boarding our first one-way train. We made it to the station with about 15 minutes to spare, stopped briefly to grab a quick bite of breakfast (and a shot of caffeine), and then jumped onto our train. Done! Made it! We were officially on our adventure, our nomadic experiment. The plan: in the spirit of a memoir I had read a few months earlier, our plan for the next few weeks, albeit for a couple plane tickets we already needed to…