Blue Truck, Red State: Weekend Getaway: The Golden Arrow to Paris

Friday, June 25, 2021

Weekend Getaway: The Golden Arrow to Paris

From 1929 to 1972, the all-Pullman Golden Arrow was the first-class way to travel from London to Paris and back. Here is a color film of the six-hour journey by train and ferry, shot in 1949 - wouldn't it be loverly to take that trip today?

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4 comments:

Tim said...: Aah, such nostalgia! I must have seen the SS Invicta many times on our weekend family outings to Dover when a child in the 50’s and 60’s. The Golden Arrow too, before the railway line that lay just beyond the bottom of our garden in Broadstairs was electrified.

I loved the terribly British voiceover's quip, “Only the French could have envisaged the Elysian Fields as a street!” What does M.P. say to that slightly less than cordiale entente I wonder?; June 26, 2021 at 4:38 AM
Russ Manley said...: Hahaha! I will have to ask him.

So glad to see your comment. I suppose your broken arm is on the mend now? Grin.; June 26, 2021 at 6:08 AM
Davis said...: I took it once from Paris to London, or Dover... A lot more complicated in ancient times!; June 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM
Russ Manley said...: You really did? Oh, what fun!; June 27, 2021 at 4:03 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu