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Subject: Re: Europe by Train Posted on: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:29:58 +0200

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:59:03 +0100, "JohnT" wrote:

>
>"RAK" wrote in message
>news:4628ec60$0$16371$88260bb3@free.teranews.com...
>>
>> "Martin" wrote in message
>> news:4ojh23h63brk0e2ak1kv4ud7tp1dgg1jm5@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:30:54 +0100, "RAK" wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Philip Meech" wrote in message
>>>>news:D_0Wh.11991$uF1.2021@trndny04...
>>>>> Any suggestions to augment the Orient Express (Paris to Istanbul) ?
>>>>
>>>>In case Magda and Martin's suggestions are not enough for you.... ;)
>>>>try www.seat61.com especially the Europe page
>>>>http://www.seat61.com/Europe.htm and this on what's left of the Orient
>>>>Express http://www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm
>>>
>>> A travel expert!
>>>
>>> How and where do you obtain an Oyster Card?
>>>
>>> Can they be obtained at City Airport and Euston?
>>>
>>> Answer needed by two people in the next hour.
>>> --
>>>
>> You can buy them at all railway stations I think, also many newspaper
>> shops etc, ones with a blue Oyster sign in the window. Probably somewhere
>> in the airport too.
>> £3 I think for an empty card, plus whatever you put on for travel. Works
>> well for buses and tube but not yet for surface trains (which are mostly
>> in South London)
>> Hope I made the 1 hour limit!
>>
>Free Oyster Card for UK residents:
>http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/oysteronline/freeoyster/

It gives me an almost blank screen, zero information.

My daughter got one at Euston, the guy, who sold it was even less useful than
the website.
--

Martin