Onboard, the 3 ½ hour journey winds through some of the most breath-taking scenery through the Urubamba River Valley and onwards into the Andes mountains, while the passengers are served a 3-course brunch with endless wines and cocktails.
This year's Notting Hill Carnival hit all the usual notes: dazzling floats, comedy dancing policemen, endless wining, paint and chocolate squirting through the air, Holland Park mums inexplicably trying to push strollers through the Rampage crowd.
Create Your Own Spa night costs $85, which includes an endless supply of wine and food.
"You think of it as a land of endless summers and wine and pâté," he said.
He said he probably spent $60,000 to $70,000 to cover the cost of his education, travel and endless bottles of wine for his studies.
On a cloudy day, however, as I can attest, it's much like sitting in a snowdrift, admittedly a warm one with soft leather seating, an endless supply of wine and the faint tinkle of Schubert in the background.
He takes her to Rome where, in contrast to their first honeymoon, "a few damp days" in a cheerless hotel in Ireland, their time together seems "an endless daze of wine, and food, and happiness".
I spent my teenage years surrounded by this idyllic scenery, in what now seems like an endless summer of drinking wine, swimming in the lakes and tasting the local weed with my best friends.
While those buttery mashed potatoes, marshmallow-topped yams and endless glasses of wine may taste heavenly, for the average adult, that translates into an extra pound of weight gain each year, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Svetlana tells us of her strange premonition while we enjoy homemade blackberry wine, endless cups of tea and biscuits spread with honey from their beehives.
