2024-06-13 05:42:59
Tarnovets labored as a senior steward of the legendary Orient Categorical prepare. Nikolay Simeonov for the fifth time this 12 months serves the elite passengers of the prepare, which arrived on Tuesday on the railway station in Ruse and from there’ll proceed to Varna and Istanbul. In an effort to begin working as an individual within the “Orient”, he says that it’s essential to know international languages, an acceptable schooling and naturally, to have a specific amount of luck. Most of his colleagues have graduated in “luxurious lodge administration” and know no less than 4 languages. Nikolay himself has been a steward for six years. He learns in regards to the job advert on the prepare from an acquaintance, applies and manages to beat the massive competitors. Like the remainder of the crew, the boyar wears a sexy and chic uniform that evokes admiration. On the stations the place the prepare stops, dozens of individuals collect round it to take a selfie as a reminiscence.
The senior steward says that this can be a historic prepare, and its inside was created in 1930. Its workers is 45-50 individuals, and amongst them the French and Italians predominate. There are additionally three eating places on the prepare. The delicacies is combined, together with Bulgarian culinary merchandise. Two of the carriages have three luxurious suites every, through which personalities akin to Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and a few members of European royal households have traveled. Previously, the next have traveled on the prepare: the English Queen Elizabeth II, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser Franz Joseph, the French President Charles de Gaulle, the writers Agatha Christie and Honore de Balzac. Nikolay himself says that he has come throughout fairly attention-grabbing incidents with well-known world personalities, however he can not inform them due to the corporate secret he has to maintain, writes Dnesbg.
Along with Nikolay, in the course of the passage of “Orient Categorical” from Ruse to Varna, the locomotive will likely be pushed by driver Vladimir Kaharkov, who’s a fourth-generation railway employee from G. Oryahovitsa. He’ll drive the Orient machine for the second time. “For me, this can be a duty, but additionally a pleasure,” says Kaharkov. Desislava Kumanska, who can be from BDZ – Passenger Transport – G. Oryahovitsa, would be the assistant driver of the luxurious prepare throughout its passage via Bulgaria. After a one-day keep in Istanbul, the “Orient Categorical” returns once more via Bulgaria, with the ultimate level of arrival being Paris.
The legendary composition was created in 1882, when the Belgian Georges Nagelmakers, son of a banker, determined to have enjoyable together with his associates by taking them on a luxurious prepare from Paris to Vienna. He likes the thought a lot that he creates the corporate “Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits”, whose object of exercise is the group of journeys by luxurious trains. The most well-liked of those compositions grew to become the “Orient Categorical”, which obtained its title in 1891, and its first route was from Paris to Giurgievo, from there passengers took one other prepare and a ferry to achieve Constantinople.