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It also helps that fashion runs in cycles, so that jewellery that was sitting in a box for ages as it looked old fashioned is going to come back sooner or later, no need to buy new diamonds

You might be thinking about the Orient Express. Also the TransSib is a railway route. You can take cheap, expensive and middle of the road trains. The expensive one doesn't stop often enough, the cheap one stops too often (and is a little bit too basic for such a long trip). But none of them are luxury trains. It's just a really long route with several train services along the way. A friend of my parents did the whole thing from the west coast of France via Paris & Berlin to Vladivostok. But he stopped often along the way to have showers and do sightseeing and probably stock up on food.

I love Russian food. And we eat that meat in jelly in Germany as well. Often with beef tongue.

I always thought that one was pretty but poisonous.

Huh? I love the furniture because it is so easy to move! Just take it apart and it fits into a Polo. Rebuild at the other end. Some of my shelves moved with me across 2 countries and 12 house moves.