overnight train to KRAKOW,POLAND

yeah yeah...so we had all been on the road for weeks and really getting worn out. After leaving Czech Republic in the middle of the night and getting to Slovakia in enought time to cat nap and grab the next trian at 6 am to Serbia, I was beat. (B.T.W- the trian ride to Serbia was 14 hours, in case you ever feel like taking the locamotive to Serbia.)

We had a great week in Serbia but I was ready to get back to Slovakia and do some laundry because I was leaving as soon as we got back for another week to go to another city, Lucenec, in Slovakia. Hence the only sleeping in my bed 5 times this month. I should start a list of all the places I have slept this summer....including the TRAIN STATION. That leads me to my little story here...

So, we were leaving Serbia to take the train back to Slovakia (14 hours, might I remind you). We had a 6 hour lay over in Budapest, which was a nice little break. We get back on the trian to head home...not much further to go. We knew we were suppossed to arrive in Presov, Slovakia around midnight and it got later and later...humm? Finally at 1:30 am we stopped in Poprad (an hour farther away from where we were suppossed to be). Come to find out they announced IN the train station, about 30 min from our destination, that the train was changing routes, but no one informed us ON the train so we ended up on the overnight train to Poland. That explains they people sleeping that we somehow disturbed with all our dilirious laughing as they changed wagoons and the reason we never went to our destination. UGH! So we get off at Poprad and the station is closed. Not even sure why the train stopped in the first place, no one got on or off the train. We debated on what to do and ended up sleeping/waiting in the train station for the next train back to Presov, which did not leave until 4:30 am.

All that to say, I love traveling in Europe. Never a dull moment.
These are some pictures that we took on the train...what else do you do after 22 hours of train travel?
We got to see the sun go down (picture below) and the sun come up...by the way, the sun comes up at 4:17am around here.