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Travelling to Russia Last week we took a look at our place within a strange land, visiting Russia and walking as interloping aliens amongst the...

Visiting Russia and meeting locals At some point during the planning stages of our Russian trip, the question of ‘getting along’ with the locals...

With a range of great journeys to choose from, you are officially spoilt for choice in terms of the exciting destinations you can explore on a...

After last week’s confessional, here are a few more embarrassing incidents from the recent trip that I feel I must relate by way of a self-purge....

Well at least I can laugh now. Consider this to be: “Things I got wrong: so you don’t have to”. Supplementary to the “By The Time You Read This”...

“There are two Russias” said the historian from Ekaterinburg; “and you need to experience them both  to really understand”. He was referring to...

The stillness of the hushed, stone interior fell away before us – revealed and shadowed equally by the dim yellow-orange incandescence of...

There had been a change of plan. From setting out to cruise the city in ‘V’s car, we had now detoured to collect his beaming, politely curious...

Did my knuckles whiten, momentarily as I gripped the armrest? Perhaps, but with my eyes locked onto the road and its oncoming traffic – I...

I’d lost a day, well a good part of it at least. My sleep account was recklessly overdrawn from a night spent propped up on a plastic chair in...