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The Royal Treatment The Iron Curtain Continued
Finally this is the day! We are beginning our two month trip to Europe and behind the Iron Curtain. Kennedy International Airport, in New York is the place of departure.
Thanks to our International Travel Club, all passengers are assembled. Remember this is a charter flight. from now on we are in the best hands you can be. Everything is taken care of: luggage, passports, tickets seats assigned, just get on board. The plane full to capacity. Tensions subdued, all is quiet as the engines start to scream and we are airborne up in to the clouds.
The PA breaks the silence as the captain welcomes us aboard also to announce we have reached the altitude of 40 thousand feet and are flying at 450 miles per hour. At that moment, as if by magic, the whole cabin exploded in music and song, the greatest party at 40 thousand feet altitude we have ever experienced! I would like to know what the cabin crew thought of what just happened.
Sunset got dimmer and the darkness took over. The party ended; we went to sleep. At midnight, we made a brief refueling stop in Reykjavik, Iceland. The next morning we landed in Stuttgart, Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
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Come Travel Behind the Iron Curtain
One of my most memorable years of travel goes back 40 years.
In 1970, my wife and I decided to take a two (2) month vacation to Europe, and behind the Iron Curtain to Romania. After 26 years we are going home to the place of our birth, to see our family we had to leave so many years ago.
At that time I did not know anybody with experience on what it takes to travel behind the iron curtain, that left me with only one choice, to become my own expert travel agent. After months of planning, and research a plan was created.
Securing passports for my wife and son not yet 16 years of age was the easy part, I already had mine from the prior year. Next, Entry and Exit visas for two countries we have to travel through, not to hard to attain.
Our travel club took care of the flight tickets, so far, so good. In West Germany, at my brothers house, we established a Home Base from which we will have the freedom to come and go as we pleased.
How are we going to travel for two months? We have no knowledge of Read the rest of this entry »
