POOR MANS ORIENT EXPRESS: MUNICH TO BUDAPEST

2nd LEG OF OUR ORIENT EXPRESS

Depart Munich: 09:27

Here comes the train....

...here come the people.

We had our own private section right next to the "Bistro" car.

Actually it is the handicaped section and mental counts too. That is our handicap.

Wardrobe repair.

This was a great seat until the stewardess's locked open this door so they good serve food and drinks.

The center of Vicki's attention is a little wailling kid on the other side of that door. We convinced the conductor to close the door.

Vicki looking for Poirot again. That is Shiva back in the corner.

We had a couple of guests in our private area. That is Gregory on top of the gage with Agee. They are traveling from Paris to Vienna. Agee said when her dog died 30 years ago the family was so devastated that she searched out a long living animal. She eliminated a turtle and a carp fish and went for the bird and they have been happy for 30 years. They had come on the night train from Paris to Munich and since they knew there would be no sleeping in the sleeping car she just opted for a reclining seat that is much cheaper. This would have been a great plan except there was a train car full of Australian and New Zealanders headed for Ocotoberfest, the largest beer party in the world, and she said they were in training the whole trip mixing beer and booze.

Shiva, who was in the other picture, is a doctor from Iran. She was a very lovely person and we talked about our many travels. She was on her way to a convention in Vienna and would be traveling to the U.S. later this year to attend a convention and visit family. In the past she had a brother going to medical school in the U.S. and they would not give her a visa to visit. She did not realize the connection until she went to get her visa this time and they visa guy said "I see your brother is not in the U.S. any more so here is your visa." She is another example of the people we met all over the world. They are not the monsters that our media and some politicos make them out to be. They are normal people, just like you and me, going about their lives the best they can with no agenda.

Back to the door......

Every door on this train is automatic. You walk up and it opens. Except the one that workers have to carry trays of food and drinks through. This one you have to puch a little green button and you have to push right in the center or it will not work. We watched so many people walk up and wave their hands around it, and stare, and wave their hands again, that Vicki finally would just reach up and push the buttun when anyone would walk up.

Vienna

Gregory and almost everyone got off in Vienna.

Who drinks Bud in the wonderful land of beer......

.....this guy

On the Austrian-Hungary border there were large fields of wind generators.

First stop in Hungary. No one on or off except crew. At each border the conductors and engineers changed but the stewardess's, who were from Budapest, stayed on and worked hard the whole day.