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From Prague to Istanbul, a rail ride on the wild side
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19900722
Author:Amy Schwartz
ISTANBUL Rudyard Kipling wrote, "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet!"
That Victorian bard would have taken it all back if he had been aboard a train earlier this year through the jumble that is Eastern Europe. I was heading east, or more precisely southeast, on an itinerary that would eventually take me from Istanbul across Turkey to Baghdad.
It seemed only fitting to come to Istanbul by way of Hungary and the Balkans. Before these places were "east" in the sense of Eastern Europe, they were "eastern" by virtue of their status as conquered parts of the old ...
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