The Great Circular European Railway Challenge

[Donbacsi]

We have African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, Everything-Americans, but no Orange-Americans. Perhaps left-over D-Day parachutes soaked in harsh anilyn dyes and draped on the palour of a finely turned British leg could seem orange?
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Berlin: Anthony Bourdain was shown snarfing a mustard slathered dog at a walk up stand in the middle of the night.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

the palour of a finely turned British leg

Boy. You are now in serious trouble with Lady G

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=palour

 

[Donbacsi]

Your site gives me nothing. Let's just call it the complexion of fine English bone china. Will that mollify her?

 

[Mark_Lester]

Don - Apropos your post about English Tan leather seating.
I was telling Lady Glenmutchkin about this and she confided that in her salad days nylons were available in two shades - American Tan and Bisto.
I quote. "American Tan was a hideous orange".


Have you found somebody who owns up to flying this route?

yes. they'd just won the contract, I'l talk them again in a few weeks.



Maybe worth exploring later dining options on Very Timid

they do stuff at the celica, but sure if we are in at 2:30 we've an entire evening.
humf, we could always get a train lake bled an back ......

 

[Glenmutchkin]

English bone china. Will that mollify her?

I might be a mongrel but Lady G is thoroughbred Caledonian. Stop digging!

Berlin: Anthony Bourdain was shown snarfing a mustard slathered dog at a walk up stand in the middle of the night.

Not sure if he still has anything to do with Les Halles but we had the best breakfast ever there.

[ Mark I was going to propose it as the climax of Project Konigsberg]

 

[Donbacsi]

The white of an Aran Isle cable knit sweater? The purity of a freshly carved dirk's bone handle?
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I think Bourdain had a falling out with Les Halles. Which is not to say it is not still great.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

The white of an Aran Isle cable knit sweater

A common misconception. Jocks are not Paddies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_sweater

 

[Donbacsi]

Glen: How does one explain the commonality of the ginger hairs? (See photo above, left).

 

[Glenmutchkin]

So now we get to the root of it all. Trichological envy!

 

[Donbacsi]

We are now only one step away from phrenology!

 

[Glenmutchkin]

As they say in Yorkshire " You must need your bumps feeling"

 

[Mark_Lester]

so, if you'll excuse me gentlemen for butting in, but

if we get the belgade connection
then we should hits jesnice north of ljubljana at 16:04

we could then get a 16:55 train straight through the julian alps. I've been there but not on the train, it's proper nice, the railway line does some great ravine hugging and loads of tunnels.

we'd hit sezana at 19:45, so 1 hour from sunset, it could be a perfect time to get the tram down the hill for a twilight view of trieste.

of course it would be pushing it, but I would personally go for this (fuddy duddies can get off a ljubljana)

if you got the train back from sezana to ljubljana you would then end up in back at ljubljana at 21:45, but this section you'd then do in reverse in the morning of course.

well, it looks great on the map so I looked it up, it's called the bohinj railway and is rated in peoples top 10
http://www.raileurope.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=2123

which i am afraid makes it a must do, anyone freaking out can get off at ljubljana and get a direct to sezana
the issue of course is we can only do this if the Sofia -> Belgrade train gets in on time, which it's likely not to.
BUT, we have someone in Belgrade station who speaks to us, I'll go ask her how well behaved the D292, Sofia to Belgrade, tends to be.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

You mean miss our night in the Military Prison.



And the integral gay disco




And the David Blane stairlift



To look at at Malham Cove?



And what about all of those other top 10 journeys that we aren't taking?

Le Petit Train Jaune is even more awesome.

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant.

PS Don’t miss

* The splendid railway museum in Ljubljana, at Parmova 35 in Kurilniska 3


Hot off the press at Seat61. Hopefully won't affect us

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR 2012: It looks as if engineering work may affect trains to and from Istanbul Sirkeci in 2012. According to a TCDD (Turkish Railways) press release, from 26 December 2011 onwards no trains will run between Cerkezköy (on the line to/from Bulgaria) and Istanbul from 10:00 Monday until 10:00 Friday. Normal service at weekends. There may be bus replacement over this section on weekdays, but if so, are not known. However, according to the Romanian Railways, they think this work won't affect the Bucharest-Istanbul train at all. Who is right?! Feedback would be appreciated if you go this way!

http://www.marmaray.com/

 

[Donbacsi]

Let's take a look at our history. Who do we trust? The Turks, Romanians or the Bulgarians? I think it's time to play Russsian Roulette.

 

[Mark_Lester]

You mean miss our night in the Military Prison.



And the integral gay disco

did I miss something about this place ?

And the David Blane stairlift

it's open till 11 :razz:

To look at at Malham Cove?



And what about all of those other top 10 journeys that we aren't taking?

Le Petit Train Jaune is even more awesome.

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant.

PS Don’t miss

* The splendid railway museum in Ljubljana, at Parmova 35 in Kurilniska 3

we're really going to **** people off if we start dragging them round railway museums.
the point about this one is that it is, an admittedly rather ambitious, filler. I'd have wanted to do it anyway, though I was hoping it didnt actually go via sezana. I've been to Lake Bohinj twice,

I wanted to fit the sememringbahn in but couldnt. this yellow train would take an entire day I guess, but it's in a tantalizing spot, though I'd be more tantalized if it was on the other side of the border.
the straight forward way to get from milan to geneva is to use the dirty great tunnel they built to do the job, we're doing bernina cos we dont lose anything time wise (I claim)

i looked yellow train up, they dont really run a proper service, 2 a day, and bahn is telling me to clear off back to perpignan to carry on to barca, so it's a cul-de-sac, which as you know I object to.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

did I miss something about this place ?

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showpost.php?p=902736&postcount=29

Please ignore me. I'm up for the trip. I'd just got carried away by the prospect of incarceration.

Of course if we skip Ljubljana we are reducing the capitals total by 1.

 

[Mark_Lester]

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showpost.php?p=902736&postcount=29

Please ignore me. I'm up for the trip. I'd just got carried away by the prospect of incarceration.

Of course if we skip Ljubljana we are reducing the capitals total by 1.

well, it was just an idea, I'm still planning we end up in Ljubljana for the night, we'll have to stay somewhere and so it will need booking, such are the problems of the big group.

it leaves just an hour in jesnice to hit a supermarket. so it means making sure we've got ample provisions on leaving sofia.

and it means the sofia->belgrade train not being late, and I'll be it is, but lets see what she says.

and if we feel too buggered we just get off in ljubljana the first time and wimp out doing the glass box.

 

[mickpop]

We have African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, Everything-Americans, but no Orange-American.

Not even in Florida?

 

[Glenmutchkin]

Have you found somebody who owns up to flying this route?

yes. they'd just won the contract, I'l talk them again in a few weeks.

It's not this lot is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjJFv1NDBg


Don - Let us know if sub-titles are required.

 

[Mark_Lester]

It's not this lot is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjJFv1NDBg


Don - Let us know if sub-titles are required.

here we go, search for a july flight in here, 19:20, 50 euro sheckles. oh and it's only 45 min flight.

http://www.dat.dk/home-30644.htm

And I've just discovered that Dan Air was nothing to do with Denmark

 

[Donbacsi]

Glen: I flew that airline once...only then it was called BA.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

here we go, search for a july flight in here, 19:20, 50 euro sheckles. oh and it's only 45 min flight.

If you enter 10 pasengers (the max on the system) the fare is £104 each.We would need a deal with them.

And I've just discovered that Dan Air was nothing to do with Denmark

You're thinking of the Eagle

 

[Mark_Lester]

Glen: I flew that airline once...only then it was called BA.

Yes, but we all flew Dan Air in the 70s (I guess) A visit to the loo on a BAC 1-11 might as well have been to an outside privvy

 

[Donbacsi]

Mark: I don't know this guy Dan, but I have flown on Bob's Air. The pilot wore a baseball cap that said "I'm Bob". He flew his Cessena B210 from Las Vegas to the Mustang Ranch. Imagine my disappointment upon arrival, only to discover there were no wild horses there!

 

[Mark_Lester]

If you enter 10 pasengers (the max on the system) the fare is £104 each.We would need a deal with them.

yes that;s odd, it;s 50 for 1.
I've spoken to then already, we're +10 so we'd have to do it directly.anyway

 

[Glenmutchkin]

......the Mustang Ranch. Imagine my disappointment upon arrival, only to discover there were no wild horses there!

Why do they need to keep cars on a farm?

Glen: I flew that airline once...only then it was called BA.

I prefer Lufthansa. Only problem is that all of their flights go via Coventry.

 

[Donbacsi]

Glen: For all the cloven hooves from up north...a mustang is a wild horse. Welcome to the Wild West, and see you in 2015 on my turf.
Coventry!?!? Isn't that where the British managed to burn down the great English Wheel, aluminum shaping (or as ONLY the British would say, aluminium) Jaguar factory? Well done boys! The Zulus couldn't have done it better.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

Aluminium http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

Coventry - One of UK's most blitzed cities while the US was sitting out the first bit of WW2

2015 - http://projectkonigsberg.wordpress.com/

 

[Donbacsi]

"...while the US was sitting out the first bit of WW2". As I recall the story, my father was sleeping in the mud with a rifle in north Africa while Monty sat in Cairo sipping his Pimm's Cup.

 

[Glenmutchkin]

"...while the US was sitting out the first bit of WW2". As I recall the story, my father was sleeping in the mud with a rifle in north Africa while Monty sat in Cairo sipping his Pimm's Cup.

This is definitely BS not banter

I do not belittle the part that the US forces played from December 1941. Without the US the war could not have been won.

The history books that I have read list the Second World War as starting in 1939. I believe that Ed Murrow was in London for it as well as Hitler's pal Joe Kennedy.

Montgomery is well documented as a teetotaller.