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Originally Posted by Marco
Great minds and all that.......Been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember Marco, sincerely hope to fulfil it with the Mrs one day, has always appealed to me
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Originally Posted by Marco
Great minds and all that.......Been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember Marco, sincerely hope to fulfil it with the Mrs one day, has always appealed to me
Will there be a murder 'victim' though?
In terms of trains, I plan on taking Del on the Orient Express for our 30th wedding anniversary, as that's always massively appealed to both of us, on various levels:)
Marco.[/QUOTE]
You only been married 30 years? I bet it seems longer to del :D
I forgot - we did go to South of France differently one year. We flew to Girona, got a train to Carcasonne, bus to Beziers then another bus to cap d'Agde. The flight was shit, but I really enjoyed the train. Although I found that my stomach doesn't like me facing backwards :spew:
My best train trip was going from Glasgow up to Inverness in the late seventies. Leaving Queen Street at 10pm and travelling overnight. Proper old fashioned carriages with compartments you could close the curtains on. We shared the carriage with a young couple who lit up some excellent Moroccan. You could smoke on trains in those days. They also had with them a kitten which they kept losing, despite the compartment only being about 2 square metres. Trains will never again be like that :(
Haha - not quite; it's our 29th anniversary this year! How long so far has Anita put up with you?:eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
You'd have been able to see bugger all, though! I like looking out the window at some nice scenery, so hate night trains, as it's boring, unless you like staring at your own reflection in the window... Especially on modern trains, as the strip lights are way too bright! Not very relaxing at all...Quote:
My best train trip was going from Glasgow up to Inverness in the late seventies. Leaving Queen Street at 10pm and travelling overnight. Proper old fashioned carriages with compartments you could close the curtains on. We shared the carriage with a young couple who lit up some excellent Moroccan. You could smoke on trains in those days.
I'm with you on the old carriages, though. However, as a non-smoker, the thought of inhaling stale 'fag smoke' (even if the variety of such was a little more 'interesting' than usual) for hours on end makes me gag!:spew:
Marco.
Yeah, I wouldn't be able to put up with that now, but things were different in those days. You would have been known as "that posh kid that complains about everything, so tell him we've all got the shits and the trip is off" :D Not darkness all the time, started coming lighter about 2.30am iirc. And I had my little Prinzsound cassette player for entertainment :) Spent a lot on batteries though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Lol - if you're talking about when I was a kid, then things, smoking aside, as I was never into that, would've been different.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yes, but I'd have been asleep then!:DQuote:
Not darkness all the time, started coming lighter about 2.30am iirc. And I had my little Prinzsound cassette player for entertainment :) Spent a lot on batteries though.
Maybe not though if you had choons on.......
Marco.
Yeah, Rob. We both love old-fashioned steam trains, and rail travel *done right*, when it was THE way to travel, classy and luxurious. Plus we're big fans of the whole 1920s/art deco thing. In that respect, one ship I'd love to have sailed on (if it had managed not to sink:D) would've been the Titanic!Quote:
Originally Posted by RobbieGong
The plushness and attention to detail in the 1st class sections, and just the gorgeous design of it and sheer quality of it as a whole, was just a joy to behold:)
'Cruise ships' today are just so pretentious and vulgar in comparison - along with many of the folk who go on them!:doh::D
Marco.
Marco,
You had better start saving.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/27/titanic-ii/
In two years time, you can sail on the “Titanic”.
Music was Kraftwerk and Temptations in heavy rotation, so you probably would have nodded off anyway. So I would then have recorded your snoring with my Prinzsound's "condenser" microphone...Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Interesting, Kevin! We'll see what the Chinese replica is like in due course, but I can't see it being too close to the original:)Quote:
Originally Posted by CageyH
Marco.