Aboard the Orient Express by John Greeves

The Orient Express is synonymous with sumptuous luxury, mysterious intrigue and exotic travel and has close associations with books and films. Kings, tycoons, refugees, big game hunters, smugglers, prima-donna, courtesans and secret agents have all travelled on it. In her autobiography Agatha Christie wrote:

“All my life I had wanted to go on the Orient Express. When I had travelled to France or Spain or Italy, the Orient Express had often been standing at Calais and I had longed to climb up into it”

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