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Four weeks
Just four weeks to go and I just want to be settled on board with the real world, and Christmas , left behind. I still need to order money and am checking the exchange rates daily its still going up so hang on. If it starts to go down then I buy before it looses any more. The money is delivered to the ship so don't have to carry it. The exchange rate is pretty good also. Found ...
What can I give this Christmas?
This year 6,657 Christmas shoeboxes were donated to The Trussell Trust for distribution in Bulgaria. This is another record and a reminder that there are a lot of you out there that really care about others much less fortunate than yourselves. If the children and adults who will receive the presents this year were able, they'd say a huge thank you to everybody who gave shoeboxes or their time to help sort them. It's really good ...
The last day
It's gone so quickly and there is so much still to see....another return trip perhaps? It's been an interesting visit, different to that we expected perhaps, as mentioned before, contrasts from lavish demonstrations of (modern) wealth to remnants of the soviet past. From Lada's to Lamborghini's, it has a real mix, but looking through a sort of facade which behind it there is still some way to go to get to western world standards, ...
Packing warm clothes!
... with some jumpers and other warm things. So hopefully we will be ok. Russia will be a new experience in traveling terms! Just the alphabet for instance, Cyrillic...oh my goodness, have you seen this!! This is the name of our hotel in Russian Отель Пушка ...
Winchester and Salisbury
... Climbed up High St to see where the old castle at Winchester was. Went into the Great Hall which remains to this day, where Sir Walter Raleigh was sentenced to death and the round table of King Arthur has been hung. Came back down High St (Pete bought a beanie) and strolled through the Abbey Gardens, by the local river and the old city walls to the car. Drove to Salisbury next. Left our things at the YHA (we got a six bed dorm to ourselves) and walked a few minutes into town ...
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