A Honeymoon Aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

The author and his new wife travel from Venice to London for their honeymoon

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After a dreamy stay at Venice’s iconic Belmond Hotel Cipriani, we’re suitably decompressed from the whirlwind of our wedding and ready for the main event of our honeymoon.

Among the regular intercity trains at Venezia Santa Lucia, there’s one that stands quite distinct from the others - surely Europe’s most iconic - The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. Its 1920s gleaming blue carriages adorned with gold lettering and insignia, stretch far down the platform and five of the train’s impeccably turned out head-staff line up warmly greeting passengers with huge smiles and handshakes - we’re overflowing with excitement. For the next 30 hours, the luxury train will wind its way through Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France, pulling into London’s Victoria tomorrow afternoon. We’re about to embark on one of the most extraordinary journeys of our lives.

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