Two old Russian gentlemen had a friendship that went back to the time of the revolution.
The first asked the second man ” Do you like cats?”
The second man replied “No, I don’t like cats”.
The first man said “That’s probably because you don’t know how to cook them properly!”
– Tour guide in Yaroslavl, Russia
When we travel, it’s not only the places and things that we see that make an impact on us. It’s the people and the characters that we encounter that often make our trips interesting. Here are some of the hundreds of people that we saw during our five weeks away in Eastern Europe and Russia […]
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On our second last evening in St Petersburg, we had a night at the ballet. It was a private show for those in our Scenic Tour group. It lasted for just under an hour and included about ten short pieces ranging from excerpts from Swan Lake to Don Quixote. One number was focused on ‘The […]
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I have now found it interesting on both of my trips to Russia to see that people rarely smile. On one occasion on this recent trip, I came across a mother and a toddler and even though I made a point of playing up to the little boy, the mother just looked at me blankly. […]
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Probably not only in Russia ?