Trish is on social media telling me about some trip Ana Kendrick has been on. I'm only half listening until she tells me a 5 day trip on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is eighty thousand pounds.
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@TheBreadmonkey I subscribe to a sleep app offering bedtime stories for adults. For some reason a lot of them are descriptions of train journeys, some contemporary, some fictionalised historical journeys. One is of the old Orient Express route that went on from Istanbul to Cairo and Damascus.
As a result of this app I am now desperate to travel of the Nordland night train, Australia’s Ghan Train, the Blue Train in South Africa and the Trans-Siberian Express. There’s one that’s a bit more accessible, which is Aberystwyth by train but that doesn’t have the same cachet.
Which app is it? I love a good bedtime train journey story, but i've just been yoinking the sound from youtube videos rather than using an official app.
@TheBreadmonkey I had no idea the orient express is that expensive. And that doesn't include a murder? Disgraceful.
I like to imagine Murder on the Orient Express is a fun story about a bunch of crows on a nice day out
Just found this from the archives, a couple of lads I know from round here started a travel company specialising in off-the-beaten-track journeys a while back. How about the Wigan-Iraq-Express instead?
https://lupinetravel.co.uk/wigan-to-iraq-the-cities-youll-see-on-this-epic-train-journey/
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It makes The Ghan across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin a bargain at AUD11,320 for Platinum Sole Occupancy in high season.
good for Ana i guess.
ugh
i said fck luxury & expense & just rode trains from Istanbul to London
regular ol trains, did get some sleepers ..they are pretty nice i thought
this was back in 2012 or so but i'm sure the trains are still great
it didn't cost us much, under $1000.
we also took some breaks... a couple days at the start in Istanbul, nights in Bucharest, Budapest, Paris, & London.
whole thing took about 12 days
costliest part was Paris to London Eurostar
majestic domes and spires rise from grand architecture on the banks of a river in this photo of part of Budapest
starting in the Istanbul train station, pictured at night in yellow lighting, a train waiting on the tracks near the smooth stone platform, which has a roof over it. a few benches sit to the left
an expansive view from the train of verdant countryside, with houses in the distance, under a grey sky
a view from the train of mountains in Romania, full of trees but covered in snow and shrouded in clouds. ground at lower elevation in the foreground is brown and dark green with trees and cover
Don't worry. Once you get One Million Pounds you'll be able to go on it 12.5 times, and then get straight back to your hobby of asking people for One Million Pounds.
Sadly the one million pounds isn't for anything fun or exotic, simply to dig me out of a debt accumulated by my business (that I spent 25 years building) collapsing during Covid and not receiving any government support, despite being a front-line care service. It will not make up for the people who lost their jobs or all of the suffering, but it will pay off the loans I was told to take, allow me to wind up the company, and if I'm very very lucky, leave enough for the beginnings of a small deposit for a house for my family after being forced to sell to keep people employed and paid. Sadly, as with most things, there is actual pain behind my silly joke. One million pounds would simply reset me to zero. When you hear anyone say fuck the Tories, they likely do not mean it quite as vociferously as I do. Given super powers and the opportunity to clean up this world, I would likely start with the people in charge of the UK during the beginnings of the pandemic, who I think should be sentenced for war crimes.
@TheBreadmonkey @heapy @Nickiquote I think I’d have been carried off in a straight jacket after that mate. Resilience of mind and character are yours in spades, even if you’d argue otherwise.
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Ah man that's some bad shit and I'm sorry for being flippant about it now. Feel for you brother, and wish I had one million pounds (no longer capitalised for fun) to give you xx
No I'm sorry - it's my bad for actually talking about it. I try not to, but I woke up in the middle of the night and you got a raw unfiltered response. Noone needs to hear about my shit when everyone has their own stuff going on. I've lived with it for years and assume at this stage I will die with it and there's not really anything I can do. So the only solution is to hope for a lottery win or that someone with a billion pounds decides to just do me a solid. My family are healthy and we have food in the fridge. What more could one possibly hope for. X
@TheBreadmonkey @heapy @Nickiquote It's OK to vent, too. No apologies necessary. May Boris Johnson die of shingles and Ebola at the same time.
@TheBreadmonkey @heapy I am extremely sorry to hear this Ben and am sending you lots of love.
Also, I think you should start asking for two million pounds.
Lol thanks. It is what it is. X
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Damn, another day where I am still not a secret billionaire.
@PetraPhoenix @TheBreadmonkey @heapy @Nickiquote I often wish I had enough money to dig my friends out of their financial holes. The best I can do is transfer the money for a taxi to my disabled bestie
You don't need to apologise! We all need to vent sometimes, Bob Hoskins was right in those BT commercials, it's good to talk. And I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that we're all here for you.
@TheBreadmonkey If I had a million pounds I'd give it to you.
It's somewhat possible that it would be in a million boxes.
@TheBreadmonkey That’s getting-killed-by-a-dodgy-submarine money, that is.
@TheBreadmonkey Avanti West Coast is not *that* much cheaper… 😉
@TheBreadmonkey We were wandering through some of Paris today, and in one shop, there was a fairly-ordinary pair of shoes for over 2000 Euros (I work that out to be nearly £1900). It's amazing how easy it is to resist the temptation to buy when the price is that much...
That is too much money!
@TheBreadmonkey Looked at getting my parents a 3 day on that to Venice and a flight back, not the whole Istanbul route. Cheapest came to over a grand a day p.p.
We went to Devon.
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Who knew the Simpleton Express was so costly?
Lol we all did. We're all on it and we're headed to hell.
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Is that where all my money has gone?
Seems to me, there's cheaper ways to get to hell.
But what do I know, I'm just a simpleton!
@TheBreadmonkey People pay a LOT of money to go on trains. It's mad.
I mean - I do like trains...... I just think eighty grand for nearly a week is a bit much
@TheBreadmonkey @DJDarren certified train toucher here, I agree with this assessment.
@TheBreadmonkey how much does it cost then for a murder on the Orient Express?
@TheBreadmonkey Is she on the single occupant special car with 2 stewards?
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