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Part 4 duly edited for typos and translation done if any Russian cyrillic there. SATURDAY DAY 3 It’s snowing! Should be pretty. The thaw which they say is very early has made a mess of the writer’s show. It is shoved into vast dirty heaps beside the road. Where the road has been dug out it makes walls which look
» Read moreThis is part 3 Doing it day by day now and hope I’m correcting any typos as can’t see well. THURSDAY Day 1 I awoke from a lovely sleep to find Rosa and Gulya gone and Rabfail pottering. We had breakfast and I had a Russian lesson till the others came home. While Rosa made lunch Rabfail and Gulya vanished
» Read moreSecond part and second atempt as earlier versions got lost. I’m learning! Arrived at Белорусский station – no Rabfail. Didn’t know where to wait as there were two halls so sat conspicuously in the middle of the площадь until an enormously tall intourist man offered help. He put out a call, tried to phone Ufa and despatched me to
» Read moreThis is my diary for the 5 weeks I was staying with friends in Ufa at the edge of the Urals. I kept it scrupulosly for all 5 weeks in pencil in a notebook. When I got home I had a job to copy it as the pencil had faded and so had my eyesight so please excuse typos. Actually
» Read moreThis is a rewrite of something I first penned in 2004. Mind you, the core of it might be the same, but I have massively rewritten it.
» Read moreThis is the beginning of a very belated diary. I’d been invited many years ago to stay with friends in the Soviet Union. It took a lot of arranging as my mother lived with me and did not approve. But in the end I went and this describes the first section. Sorry about unexplained Russian and my typos. I don’t
» Read moreSo, I’m new to this and not really sure how it works but I just wanted somewhere to share some things I’ve been working on.
» Read moreThe loss of my beloved pet, Ludo, is devastatingly painful, but everything is subjective isn’t it?
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