Victoria Express

October 2nd, 2009

Victoria Express Train (6)_edited-1I hope all of you have seen the wonderful movie “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye featuring the music of Irving Berlin. It is absolutely one of my all time favorite Christmas movies! There is this wonderful scene where the 4 main characters are on a train headed to Vermont and start singing in the dining car. Well, while this wasn’t 1954 and we certainly weren’t singing, I felt like a part of White Christmas last week while aboard the overnight train, The Victoria Express, from Hanoi, Vietnam to Sapa (a hill tribe area in the very north of the country). Everything from the wood-paneled sleeping cars to the red leather booths and dim lighting in the dining car was straight out of the movie. I had to do everything I could not to break out into song (which I am sure I would of had my mom, sister or women cousins been there)…
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