One of the lessons we’ve learned, using the Eurail passes, is that even though the individual journey tickets don’t require reservations, we got “unseated” yesterday by people who had actually purchased the seats we were innocently occupying. The result? I stood for the last 2 hours of the ride. So today, the first thing we did was head back to the train station and secure our seats for the 7 hour ride to Krakow, Poland. We’d planned to take the 10:02 train, only to find there were NO seats left. It would have been a huge bummer to arrive in time for that train and find that not only couldn’t we take that one, but we would have been too late to take the one that DID have seats – and leaves at 7:02 am. The bottom line: we have seats. We leave at 7:02 instead of 10:02, arriving at Krakow a bit earlier than we’d thought.