Travel

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I went to Russia when it was still the Soviet Union and St P'burg was still Leningrad. It was November and extremely cold. There was some culture shock but Russians are not much different from Brits - they have a great (dry) sense of humour. The food was lousy though and there wasn't much to spend money on. I came back after a week with a real need for some retail therapy!

I went to the US a couple of months later and that was a much, much bigger culture shock!

My kind mother is sending me some money to put towards a holiday, in October. We're going to rent an apartment just north of Perpignan, so that we can explore parts of southern France, as well as pop over to Spain and visit the Dali museum (again) in Figueres. I need to brush up on my French!