Gassed, thieved and left for dead.

This is likely to be a short post as we are both pissed off that every single person in the world appears to want to be in Vienna at the same time as us. Yet, we are more pissed off than that because not only do they want to be in Vienna, but they were clever enough to actually book a hostel. As such we have ended up cutting our stay short and staying for only one night in a hostel we are 99% likely to get raped in; it pretty much said as so on its website.

We have noticed, however, that people get a lot of pleasure from scaring two girls travelling alone into thinking they will be attacked at best, or left for dead. The most frequent story we heard when we informed others that we were getting the overnight train from Krakow to Prague was that we would undoubtedly be gassed and thieved.

Our fears that we were attempting to keep at bay were not quashed, either, when a girl in our couchette who told us she was Czech informed us that in we were in no circumstances (and she enforced this point more than once) allowed to open the window. She appeared to be unaware that water would boil at the couchette room temperature.

She wasn’t much keen on us going to the toilet either, and insisted that if we did dare to venture to the loo we should: "lock the door behind us". Neither of us have managed to work out how to lock a door from the outside... but we nodded all the same. Charlotte was petrified all night because of the hundreds of horror stories that had been drilled into us; she swears she dreamt about thieves coming through windows or magically being able to open locked doors from the outside.

You will be interested (I am sure) to know that our stealth mission to the toilet at 3a.m was carried out with SAS precision and the scary girl never knew a thing. Mwah ha ha.

We hope it is needless to say that we were not raped or pillaged and have no intention of being so.