Hi Sonny,
Just got back from Rome. Real busy day and tiring!! I did answer your
post but I can't figuer why it wasn't posted!! Yes I have been on the
Orient Express! The first time was in 1975. That was the real Orient
Express! Paris, Gare de Lyon to Istanbul, Hyder Pasha! That was the
real oreinet Express! Pre-war German made Waggons, Wood-pannaled
Waggon-lits in the first class, and the Turkish gustarbieters going
to back to Anatolia mingling wiht Hippies on the way to some far-off
Ashram in some far off Hymalayian hill top in the second class!
I can still smell the tobacco and the sweat!!
The route was Paris, Milan, Venice, Triest, Lubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade,
Nis, Sofia, and through the Trace to Istanbul. From there One could
have continued with the Van Express to Lake Van, but I
didn't take taht. I checked in ParaPlace in Istanbul and lived it up.
Last year my wife and I London Venice on the New Oreint Express. Maximum of Luxury,
Champgne, Taxido's, Coctail Dress, great service, soft sleepers!
Something out of the Bell Epoche! I stongly recommend you try it! If a—
poor guy like me could afford it, I am sure you can too! gg!!
I have been 70% in bonds forever! And the few dime and nicles I save
during the year, I sink them in always on 70-30 perortion!
What kind of Bonds! No US Treasury bills or anything like that.
Currencies are DM. USD, Lit. Sfr, and œ. The coupons are re-invested
in 70-30 preportion!
Quality bonds are AAA sovreign Dutch, German, Italin, or US coporation
bonds, Israel Bond, Argentina, Brasil, and Mexico bonds for US Dollar
and Lit. where I pick up 4 basic points. Now if Moody calls Argintine,
Mexico and Brasil BB or B1 tht is moody's problem. I get over 10% return
on US Dollar and 14% on Lit. I like that!
Sonny, tell me more about INTC at 140! Is any US broker has given that
as a target price?
Kind regrds,
Yaacov |
