Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Can any train ride
match the Orient Express for glamor and sheer romance?
Over a hundred and
thirty years ago, the longest train service of that time started to bridge between
some cities in Europe and the gate city to Middle East, Constantinople (now Istanbul).
The first Oriental Express train departed from Paris on October 4, 1883, to
Giurgiu in Romania via Munich and Vienna. It was soon extended to then
Constantinople, Ottoman's capital up until its collapse in 1923, being ferried
to cross the Bosporus. It took four days and three nights to complete the luxurious
yet painstaking journey. The service was suspended during the wars but it
lasted over a century until 2009.
Is it just nostology
to exhibit how the train was furnished and enjoyed by the affluent passengers
who spent days to enjoy traveling and socializing with others of the kind?
Enjoy reading and
imagining how a four-day train journey would have been when there was no TV,
recorded music or video, internet access or air-conditioning.
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