About Syria A Travel Question for Northern and Eastern Europeans

[Jenny A]

We are thinking (planning really) about traveling to Poland, The Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, this June/July.  We will be traveling mostly by train (including a couple night trains) and occasionally by bus. Is there really a problem for U.S. tourists at those boarders.  Do you think our train travel will be gummed up by Syrian refugees?  We would have reserved seats on most international crossings.

I want to know your best guess for two reasons.  First, we want to have a good time, and waiting at boarders is not a good time and there're are other places we could go like Spain or England.  Second, we don't want to further foul up trains that are needed for humanitarian purposes.

Beyond trains, I'm not much worried.  I assume refugees won't flood tourist sites, why would they?

Oh---and if we go, I'd love to have drinks, lunch, or dinner with anyone here who'd like to meet us there.  What'd you'd get is me, my super bright deist husband and two beautiful articulate atheist girls.  I'm a rather ordinary well padded American woman.  Or I'd be happy to make you dinner.  We tend to stay in local apartments and I like to cook.