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The main Prague train station (Praha hlavní nádraží) can’t help but inspire wanderlust to even just the quick passerby. From the outside, one cannot walk by without glancing through the huge windows framed in green into the daylight lit station. It resembles a large greenhouse, but instead of plants, trees, and shrubs, the building hosts locomotives, travelers, and viewers like myself who were awed by the natural light. 

If you enter through the other side of the station, you can also be awed by the more ornate Art Nouveau entrance of the building.  The whole station is worth walking through even if you have no destination to get to because of the alluring interior, and the perfect people-watching spots. Planned travelers walking promptly to and from their train, rushed late arrivals running through the station before their form of transportation leaves without them, and standbys, sagging against walls and benches with their piles of luggage— you can see them all. 

I have yet to take the train out of Prague, and unfortunately I don’t think I’ll get the chance to this trip. One day I hope to have the ability to purchase a ticket, stroll to the big board of train times to find my platform, and board a train to another faraway city.