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Russian trains and Russian tongues
Foreigners in Russia almost always note one peculiarity about Russians’ travelling habits – Russkis take food, home-made food, pretty much wherever they go. Inside a Russian train (a more luxury...
View ArticleMaltby street market, Bermondsey.
On Thursday 23rd December, I got up at 6.30 in the morning, and was already ‘on location’ at 9 o’clock – under the bridge arches near Tower Hill, London. The streets were freezing, empty – and only a...
View ArticleOn witches, dressing up and pumpkins.
I was born on Halloween. Yes, the very 31 October when hoards of delirious kids run havoc, hawking. Yes, that same day when most of us adults feel liberated (or obliged?) to dress up in something...
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