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Mon 22-Oct-56: Cashed \u00a315 in French Francs. Got Alberg Express at 9:10 am arrived Innsbruck 5:30pm. Wonderful Tyrol!<\/i><\/h6>\n
Tue 23-Oct-56:\u00a0\u00a0 Arrived Paris 8:50am. Very foggy, couldn’t find Roley Pullen. A trying morning but all clear at 2pm.<\/i><\/h6>\n

\"1956<\/p>\n

On the Orient Express<\/a> \u2013 the Arlberg Division<\/h6>\n
Just past Salzburg \u2013 on the way to Innsbruck<\/h6>\n
2pm on Monday 22nd<\/sup> Oct<\/h6>\n

Dearest Girl,<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t write this too well, the train is jiggling around quite a bit. At the moment we are traveling alongside a mountain stream, with great sharp rocky peaks on either side. There is no snow about but all the trees, save the pines, are in many shades from light yellow to red. Really \u2013 very colourful & dramatic. I am drinking a bottle of beer & have just finished two very indifferent frankfurts & a roll. Looks like my last food till I get to France. I shall spend my last money \u2013 20 or so Austrian schillings \u2013 about 3\/6 on beer \u2013 it will make me happier to be without food. I have French francs but can\u2019t do much with them here. Just imagine \u2013 we have just passed below a castle perched high up on a great 200-300 ft high rock. How they get there \u2013 or built it I don\u2019t know. It is quite warm and the sun is streaming in the carriage window. The beer is making me sleepy and I am missing the scenery. I think my darling, I had better continue this letter tonight when there is nothing to see. We still have 18 hours to go.<\/p>\n

My Darling girl \u2013 We are just pulling into Basle (or Basel) on the northern corner of Switzerland \u2013 it is the border of France & Germany I think. It is midnight and I am missing you like mad. It seems like the near full moon which accompanies us has had many trips since I left Mascot. I do hope you are both alright. Am pretty tired now and would like to be actively in your arms. Then deep sleep \u2013 A great curse! I had this compartment to myself for \u00bc hour. With doors open & heater off. Now in comes a bloody French couple with a child & shut the door. These flaming Europeans can\u2019t stand a bit of air. Give you the hump \u2013 However, I\u2019ll go to sleep and rise above the sordid problems. I\u2019ll tell you about the trip when I get alone in my room. Incidentally, this express is driven by electric motor \u2013 from overhead wires \u2013 all the way from Vienna to Zurich. Just had my passport stamped by the French control officers. Child now blowing horrible raspberries \u2013 in French I presume. May as well give it away. Good night dearest. I know my intimate feelings will be too stale for immediate benefit for either of us, by the time you get this letter. But despair not \u2013 they, Phoenix-like, are being continually re-vitalized. I get very loving towards you both when I think of the letters I collected from the Hotel Austria. Selfishly, I loved them. Does the solitary soul good to feel that it is needed somewhere. You are my own dear people. I suppose this parting helps in some way, to make for closer union \u2013 for love and dependency from us all. At last we are off again. Paris! Have I come!<\/p>\n

Tuesday \u00a0[23 Oct 1956] 7.15am. We are only about \u00be hour outside of Paris and a heavy fog practically obscures any vision of the countryside. Had a pretty good night \u2013 the French couple must have got out shortly after we left Basle \u2013 I was alone from there on. I think I will stay in Paris till the 2nd<\/sup> of November then go on to London for a week & a couple of days. I\u2019ll have to leave London by the 19th<\/sup> November to get to Zurich where I get my plane on the 21st<\/sup>. So any letters you may send after you get this should be sent to Clarrie McNulty, London \u2013 get address from Eleanore [Watson]. It is Consolidated Press something or other, Fleet St.<\/p>\n

5pm. Am at last resting in Roley Pullen\u2019s flat after a very trying morning. He received your letter in this morning\u2019s mail. That\u2019s very good going, my darling. I had no expectation that I would get a reply to my phone call only 5 days after I made it. Thanks a lot dearest. I arrived in Paris at 8.50am & no familiar faces to behold. I got a taxi to the address I had of Roley\u2019s \u2013 No one had heard of him. More than a little dismayed I staggered with the weight of luggage into a nearby coffee shop where I had hopes of mapping out an attack on the city. Could find nothing in the phone book but an entry for Agence Francaise de Press. Hoping to find some clue from the address listed, I began a back breaking search for a bookshop where I could get a map of Paris. Miraculously, I noticed an Agence Francaise name over a doorway. It wasn\u2019t the address but I asked & finally found an English speaking girl who gave me an address of Australian Associated Newspaper Service. I lugged the cases about a mile (with the aid of an uninformative map) till I came to the address. This was an hotel. I could have wept. Anyway, I went in & somehow or other whilst asking if they knew anything about any Press service in the vicinity a girl\u2019s name who is the representative was mentioned & they said she lived there but was out & not back till 1 o\u2019clock. I left a pitiful note & said I would return & would they mind if I left my big case there for the hour & half. Then wandered up the hill towards Montmartre. Came back \u2013 girl gone \u2013 but note with Roley\u2019s address and Phone no. They told me where it was & how to get there by underground. I got the train (about 6 stations) & when I got out realised I didn\u2019t have the number of the house. Couldn\u2019t ring either. Got train back \u2013 retrieved note \u2013 and as it was nearly 2 o\u2019clock asked hotel to ring for me. Luckily I got him & hence here I am \u2013 buggered but unbowed. He has a fine view of the Seine & Notre Dame. His rooms directly overlook the river. And just opposite is the Palais de Justice & behind it, the Louvre. He is being very kind to me \u2013 wouldn\u2019t think of me going to a hotel. (Naturally with my wrong address \u2013 he didn\u2019t get the telegram). But was not quite so surprised to hear me on the phone, as he had received your letter. He is working now \u2013 so I am writing this to keep out of his way. Paris seems to be a huge place, and very beautiful. I\u2019ll get up early & start my dutiful tour then. Couldn\u2019t dream of it now.<\/p>\n

Lots of love darling \u2013 I hope Graham\u2019s got some new pieces for me to hear. Ask Graham to give Trellie [Corgi dog] a man\u2019s hug for me and for himself 2 heavy handshakes \u2013 bye \u2013 bye – Bill<\/p>\n

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<\/a>
Austria from aboard the Alberg Express train from Vienna to Paris; 22 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Possibly alongside the Salzach River, Austria from aboard the Alberg Express train from Vienna to Paris; 22 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Austria from aboard the Alberg Express train from Vienna to Paris; 22 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
Austria from aboard the Alberg Express train from Vienna to Paris; 22 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Landhotel – Wirtshaus VORDERGRUB<\/a>, Bernhard Knollseisen, Walsenbachweg 14. A-6370 Kitzb\u00fchel, Austria taken aboard the Alberg Express train from Vienna to Paris; 22 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
View from Roley Pullen’s apartment at 33 Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris; 23 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pont<\/a>
Pont St Michel painted by W.E. Pidgeon in 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
View from Roley Pullen’s apartment at 33 Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris; 23 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>
View from Roley Pullen’s apartment as evening approaches at 33 Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris; 23 October 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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