Not so Faux New Shoes!

I couldn't resist!  These were $130 at Halls on sale for $90.  They didn't have my size - thank goodness!  I got online and found them on Amazon.com for $48.50 (free S & H)!!!!!  They should be here next week.  I can wear them to dinner on the Orient Express train ride next year.  They will be perfect to wear next summer with my lovely green dress that I am working to fit back into.  In addition I have some green and pink fabric just waiting to be made up - saving it for when the excess weight comes back off.  Two of my favorite colors - fushia and emerald green.

My Faux Car - Purple Porsche Cayenne

Which Orient Express?

If you look up the Orient Express you will find that there was actually more than one Orient Express.  The Simplon Oreint Express is the one that most people are referring to when they speak of the Orient Express.  This is also the train that Agatha Christie used in her classic novel "The Orient Express."  I use the term Orient Express not only to indicate the Simplon Orient Express but also the classic route, which now only runs once a year, from Paris to Istanbul. 

I told Kathryn I was going to get a Kindle so we could take turns reading the Orient Express out loud during the evening portions of our train ride.  I was appalled when she told me she doesn't read books more than once.  Why?  Like me, she watches good movie many times and we also know the ending.  I'm still trying to figure this out.

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The cost of the train trip alone is going to be $9,750.  So for Kathryn Corso and me it will be $19,500.  That's one way to Istanbul.  It's too soon to price the airfare from Istanbul back to Paris, then Paris home.  Having many problems with this password situation for blogging.  Hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon.