I'm a little late getting to the Tuesday 4 this week because I had to take my pup to be groomed this morning and then my car wouldn't start. Grrr! All is well, though, and the pup looks and feels pretty.
The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Fares range from
£2,200 per person for a Venice to London journey, up to £40,000 for a Grand Suite on the Istanbul journey.
1. Do you enjoy riding on trains, planes or boats? Got a tale to tell us? I can't really say about trains. I guess I rode on one when I was very young, but I don't remember it. A train trip is on my bucket list. I have flown many times and at one time dreamed of being a pilot. So yes, I enjoy flying. I went on my first cruise last summer and I liked it very much, but I don't think that would be the case on any old ship. Our ship was a bit older (1979 or 89, I believe) and much smaller than the monstrous floating cities that party their way to the Caribbean and back. Those are quite amazing to watch films of, but I don't think I would like being squashed in with all those people. There were about 5000 people on our ship (travelers and staff combined) and it felt very intimate, safe, and nothing was horribly crowded.
2. The Orient Express is super luxurious with 5 star accommodations including real bedrooms, cocktail bars, etc. It stops along a route that includes, London, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest, Venice, Paris, Prague and Istanbul. Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is set on the train. You can choose your itinerary from the lists their site offers. Of the places shown here, which cities interest you the most and why? Bucharest, Venice, Prague, and Istanbul. I tend to be intrigued by the unusual, the more "exotic" and those places would, I think, be the most different from what I'm used to.
3. Do you think you would enjoy a cruise? Where would you go? I enjoyed my cruise up the coast of New England and Nova Scotia very much. I think I would also enjoy an Alaskan cruise, a cruise on the intercoastal waterway, one to Australia, or one like my parents took last year down the coast of Mexico and through the Panama Canal.
4. Given the time and the choice and money being no object will you travel to Europe via plane or luxury liner? It would totally depend on how much time I had and where I was going and why. If I had all the time in the world and no worries about money, I would definitely take the luxury liner because that's a vacation in itself and then enjoy my destination. If I didn't have the time and was going somewhere I was very excited about, I'd just fly to get there sooner.
Interesting questions this week. I know you loved your cruise. We just hated our cruise experience and have never thought of going again. It's a car for us or a plane if we have to. A luxury train trip across the Canadian Rockies would be lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt would be so fun to visit any of those destinations! Loved your answers! Have a nice week.
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Like Terri, I'd love to see the Canadian Rockies via rail. That was something my late mother always wanted us to do, but I wasn't particularly enthused. All these years later I still feel really guilty for not saying 'yes.'
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you enjoyed your cruise. But when you said there was "only 5000 people" on it, and that felt "intimate, safe and nothing was horribly crowded"...I gasped! I have never been on a cruise, but just the thought of that many people on a boat on the water together really gives me the heeby jeebies! I think I am a bit too claustraphobic to take a cruise. I probably should never have watched the Titanic movie. LOL. I wouldn't mind a nice train trip across the Rockies or in Alaska. But when I want to get somewhere, I prefer a plane! Your post was very fun. Glad you got it out here for us to read! Have a blessed day.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I'd go to Istanbul would be to see Hagia Sophia, otherwise its the only place I would avoid. I think a small cruise would be better as well. Not fond of the mega ships of today
ReplyDeleteSounds like we took the same new England cruise to Novia Scotia. I left a link at my blog. You would love the Alaska cruise. We got a balcony unit and it was so nice to sit out and watch whales spout and eagles fly around. I would love to go on another cruise.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about the car!! Ain't that something, the dog gets groomed before we do, sigh.
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