Hungary, Slovakia (almost), Vienna (again briefly), Prague, Berlin, and Switzerland

From when I last left it I was in Austria, Vienna. From there I went to Budapest, Hungary. I spent a day in Budapest seeing all the sights quickly and so fourth. The city is unique and beautiful but there is one problem, at least it became a problem for me, not manz speak English. So, from Budapest I was planning on taking an overnight train to Prague which was supposed to go through Slovakia to the Czech Republic. I went and told the lady at the ticket office where I wanted to go and when and she gave me a ticket. Later that day when I went back to catch my train I was trying to find the train on the board and couldn´t. I asked some people in the station and no one could understand what I wanted or couldn´t explain to me what they wanted to say. So, I knew the train was supposed to go through Slovakia and I saw a train leaving that was going to a town right on the boarder of Slovakia and was leaving at the same time as mz train to Prague was supposed to leave, so I got on it. It took me to the Slovakia/Hungary border to a little one street town with a train station and a bar. There was no train to connect to that was taking me the rest of the way. I was in this little town in the middle of no where with no one that could speak English and no more Hungarian money since I thought I was on a train out of that country. So, I sat and prepared myself to sleep on the street until morning when I could find another train out of there. Then I realized that the train that I had come on was getting ready to leave. It was the only train there and I basically thought, no place can be worse than here. Luckily the train took me back to Budapest, unluckily I got in after midnight with no money and planning on catching a 6am train out of there. So, I curled up on the sidewalk outside the closed train station and slept on the streets of Budapest, quite an experience.
Although I didn´t really sleep, when I got up I went and found my train and was off to Vienna. I knew there were trains from Vienna to Prague that didn´t have to go through Slovakia or anywhere else. Then in Vienna I went across town to switch train stations and got on the train to Prague. Finally I arrived in Prague in the middle of the afternoon and I was very relieved and very tired. I went to bed early that night in preparations for a full day of sightseeing the next day.
Prague was also a very unique and very beautiful city. I decided to rent a bike to see the city since I didn´t have a lot of time to see it and I wanted to make sure I saw it all. So, I rented a bike and rode all over the city and had a great time. I managed to see everything and still have some left over time before my train was supposed to leave. So, I relaxed a little before heading to the station. When I got to the station the train going to Berlin was said to be leaving 30 mins. late. So I waited and eventually it ended up leaving almost an hour late. No big deal I just wouldn´t be getting in until really late. Well for some reason the train took more than twice as long to get to Berlin as it was supposed to. So, we didn´t get in to Berlin until almost 3am. Now, I had a reservation but I was supposed to be there at 10pm. I called from the station and they said that they had given it to someone else since I hadn´t shown up within so many hours. So, originally on the train they had said that we would get hotel vouchers if we needed. So, I went to the desk to get one and they refused to give me one. I was not happy at all. They said since Berlin was my final destination and I hadn´t missed a connecting train that they couldn´t give me one. If I had been dis-honest and said that I had planned to catch one of the trains that was leaving they wouldn´t have been able to tell since my Eurorail pass can go on any train any time basically. So, I ended up just sitting in the train station until morning when I could go see the city.
When the sun came up and people started to file into the train station for their Monday morning commute to work I got up, put my bags in a secure place, and went out on the town. I went on a free city tour which was really cool because I ended up spending basically no money in Berlin. At the end of the day I had another overnight train to Zurich. I reserved a bed on the train earlier in the day and when I got to the train I laid down and I was out.
I woke up the next day almost to Zurich. When we got there I locked up my bags and set out to see the city for a few hours. From the very begining I could tell that I was going to fall in love with Switzerland. I loved Zurich and from there I was supposed to be off to Interlaken. However, from there I took a train to Lucern and stopped off there for a couple of hours. That city too was amazing and the only bad thing was my bag broke while I was there walking around. I managed to somewhat fix it until I could get somewhere and buy a new one. From there I took a train to Interlaken. When I got into town I found a place and crashed for the evening.
The next morning I decided to have an adventure. I signed up for a canyoning trip and away I went. It was amazing. It was a combination of repelling, rock climbing, and cliff jumping as we worked our way down a canyon of glacier melt-off water at about 1 mile up. I had the most amazing time and have awesome pictures that I bought to show all later.
Today I went to Schilthorn for an amazing view of most of Switzerland. It´s a viewpoint at about 10,000 ft. with just an amazing 360 degree view of the Swiss alps. Tomorrow I´m on the road again and I´ll try to write again soon.

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