SHUT YOUR EYES -DREAM - YOUR ARE OFF ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
You are about to be transported dear friends on a 67 hour journey on the Orient Express. Is that you? We are in 1865 when A Belgium banker’s son Georges Nagelmackers invited us on a railway trip of 2,000 km (1,243 mi) on his 'Train Eclair de luxe' (lightning luxury train). I know the train left the Paris Gare de l'Est on Tuesday, October 10, 1882, just after 18:30 and arrived in Vienna the next day at 23:20. The return trip left Vienna on Friday, October 13, 1882, at 16:40 and, as planned, we re-entered the Gare de Strasbourg at 20:00 on Saturday October 14, 1882. But I can’t prove it. Or is thay you? You see I have found no posters about Paris being one of the central stations for our dream so we will just be « woooooshed » ofter to Charing Cross Station in London . André Derrain _ Charing Cross bridge in London - 1906 Oh, you want to know a little bit more about Georges Nagelmackers? It’...