As long as Europe has a pulse there will be the Orient Express. It’s the essential connect to the not entirely apocryphal ‘glory days’ of continental travel. My bucket list includes doing the Orient in a Farage pinstripe, though this travelogue without a ghastly murder on the train. There’s something about the combination of stunning landscapes and sordid intrigue that ensures Agatha Christie’s classic is still being revisited some 80 years after the book’s first edition (1934).
Anyway, an excellent piece of writing here in The Telegraph ahead of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s November release:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/rail-journeys/orient-express-mystery-and-history/
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 