This is what it’s like onboard the Golden Eagle’s new Paris-Istanbul route

It took a day to leave France (stopping to visit a Champagne house in Epernay slowed our progress), and another to reach Vienna in time for supper at the Burgtheater. Our first morning aboard, I awoke to a green Austrian valley between two pine-covered hills. Morning fog was clotted between the trees. The last of the Alps, dusted with snow, were behind us, and the maypoles were out. How lovely the morning…