{"id":482,"date":"2012-09-12T10:32:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=482"},"modified":"2012-09-12T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:02:44","slug":"afghanistan-1975-0313-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan 1975 – 03\/13 – Trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The route from Paris to Istanbul and most of the travel across Turkey was by train. In 1973 I was able to do the Istanbul to Trabzon connection by boat. Nice modes of travel – neither of which are available at my destination. Afghanistan is land locked and never managed to install much rail line.<\/p>\n

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My traveling companion on some of the last miles of the Paris to Istanbul train. After I had been fasting for most of the trip he offered me some of his Slivovitz. That made the next few hundred miles something of a blur.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Turkish countryside as seen from the doorway of our train.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I don’t know what was being discussed here on the railway siding. The stops in the small towns along the way made for a pleasant break in the train travel.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The train through Turkey is not as restful as the boat on the Black Sea but it surely beats the bus ride.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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