Traveling The Orient Express 6/23/18

We boarded our train Saturday morning in Berlin to begin our overnight adventure on the Orient Express destined for London. The train, pulled by a fast DB German railways electric locomotive includes three dining cars, a bar car, two service cars and several sleeping cars, all vintage rail cars built between the late 1920s and about 1940. All of the cars have been restored to their pristine original condition with beautiful heavily lacquered woodwork and shiny gilded fixtures throughout. The handsome dark blue Wagons Lits cars attract a lot of attention at stations along the route with many people taking photographs of the train. A delicious lunch was served in the dining cars in the early afternoon, preceded by refreshments in the bar car served with a three piece musical accompaniment. Tea tine will be served in our compartment around 4 pm and dinner in the dining cars at about 8 pm. This elegant mode of travel from days long gone is relaxing yet exciting, a rare opportunity to enjoy a real vintage experience.