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Re: [OM] imgs: from the slow train to Amsterdam

Subject: Re: [OM] imgs: from the slow train to Amsterdam
From: iwert bernakiewicz <iwert.bcz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:09:29 +0100
Very nice image!

Indeed, and the carriages also changed wheels at the Russian border if
I remember correctly.

Iwert.

2013/2/4 Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx>:
> Ostend to Moscow by train?
>
> Yes, been there, done that - although in truth we changed in
> Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle and Berlin, but the trains were indeed well organised
> (and especially so the DDR border guards we had to negotiate four times).
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2014 is one of the images from
> that trip, in 1970, before I had an OM (before they existed!), and before I
> had an SLR, so it must be from an Instamatic 100 on Kodachrome-X. The view
> is the Piskaryovskoye cemetery in what was then Leningrad. I nearly called
> it a war cemetery, which might have been appropriate, had the dead been
> military casualties. Of course, they are not, they are civilian, and the
> grassed humps either side of the rosebeds are the mass graves. I have since
> realised that what is visible in the image is barely one eighth of the
> extent of the mass graves
>
> The young guy in the red trousers went on to become the BBC's Moscow
> correspondent.
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iwert bernakiewicz [mailto:iwert.bcz@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 February 2013 13:59
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] imgs: from the slow train to Amsterdam
>
> --snip
>
> It used to be very well organized over here, with good connections
> throughout Europe, trains going from Moscow to Brussels to Ostend
>
> --snip
>
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