After Berlin, I took a morning bus to Prague where I was meeting my father for several weeks. The most scenic part of the bus ride was passing miles of large fields of sunflowers, something that I had never seen on such a scale before. As with the rest of Europe, there was no border check, I couldn't even tell when we passed out of Germany, and obviously no new passport stamp. Interestingly, while travelling in six European countries resulted in only one stamp in my passport, I still had to use five different currencies (apparently, security issues are easier to integrate than monetary ones). I finally received a second stamp when I left Europe, not from Prague, from where I flew out, but in Hungary, from where my connecting flight to outside the EU departed.
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