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THE Orient Express (Weekend magazine) was very different when my husband and I used it in 1962 to visit friends. Our journey from Paris to Istanbul cost us [pounds]35 each and took us behind the Iron Curtain. The journey lasted three days, and there were no beds - - we just sat on very hard leather benches. There was no air- conditioning -- only blackout curtains.
When we started our journey, we were told no food or drink would be on sale, and, because of the Iron Curtain, we were allowed to carry only [pounds] 2 10s each in currency. Our only chance to buy food was to jump off at each border when the rain stopped to change engines, but we found the local people wanted only U.S. dollars. Luckily, we managed to fill a bottle of water from a tap on the station, and some of our fellow travellers bought melons and cucumbers. That's all we had to eat.See the full content of this document
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Cold War Comfort On the Orient Express
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