Train travel is having a cultural moment. It’s greener than flying, far more scenic, and this year Europe is expanding its ...
Left: A coach of the Orient Express built between 1926 and 1928. Right: A Venice Simplon-Orient-Express car photographed in 2023.AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau, Joey Hadden/Business Insider The Orient Express ...
While trains may not be the fastest way to get from point A to point B, there is something timelessly romantic about traveling by rail. Today’s luxury trains transport guests back to the Golden Age of ...
Today I’m taking the world’s best train, the Venice Simplon Orient Express for 32 hours from Prague all the way to London.
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These upcoming European vintage train journeys will offer passengers stunning landscapes and exclusive experiences without ...
The famed luxury train will transport guests through some of the most idyllic European landscapes, with extravagant menus, a vintage bar car, and an onboard sommelier. Stacey Leasca is an ...
A playground for the slow travel elite, starting at $80,000 a night, the “L’Observatoire” suite aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is train travel, but not as you know it.
The legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express stopped at the Bulgarian border near Svilengrad on its way back from Istanbul to Venice. (Photo by Hristo Rusev) The iconic European luxury train that ...
Ever since it pulled out of Paris’s Gare de Strasbourg on October 4th 1883, the name ‘Orient-Express’ has been a metaphor for travel with a certain amount of style. It conjures up particular images.
There’s something about luxury train travel that’s simply romantic. Perhaps it’s the slow travel through history to a time before technology, the Golden Age glamour of the interior design and evening ...