there is however a way you can still get the orient express experience in NUMBER_TOKEN james sherwood an american entrepreneur living in the uk started buying classic train coaches at auctions including vintage NUMBER_TOKEN wagons let's sleeper cars he restored them and in NUMBER_TOKEN began operating a service called the venice simplon orient express running from london and paris to venice this was eventually expanded to reach istanbul just like the original orient express taking five days and traveling through budapest and bucharest the train is less of a practical means of transportation a more a luxury travel experience while a few train enthusiasts would consider it the real orient express it does get you from paris to istanbul in style departing just once a year in august it includes five nights aboard the train NUMBER_TOKEN-hour steward service hotel stays meals and city tours in both budapest and bucharest a danube river cruise and of course multiple course meals to rival those of the original a twin cabin on the venice simple on orient express will cost you seventeen thousand two hundred fifty pounds per passenger which is about twenty thousand euros or twenty three thousand dollars the suite double that price considering that in NUMBER_TOKEN the average annual wage in france was about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN euros even the cheapest ticket is relatively speaking more than twice as much as passage on the original orient express so what was the real orient express the original train of lubellapoc that chauffeured europe's growing wealthy class across the continent the post-world war one simplenorian express that inspired artists and writers or the failing cold war line that took spies and diplomats to and from enemy territory did it end in NUMBER_TOKEN with its last run to istanbul in NUMBER_TOKEN when the last cause of its name rolled into the vienna west vanhoof on a gray winter morning perhaps the orange express is more than any one train and instead a cultural symbol of europe's history and thirst for adventure in this way it's sure to live on in novels films and the zeitgeist for years to come so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did please do hit that thumbs up button below don't forget to subscribe and as always thank you for watching
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