Uglich, Russian Federation

... translate it into "stuffed cabbage" as in the U.S., so I didn't even know what I had ordered until it was on my table. What a nice surprise! But my mother doesn't like Chicken Kiev.....We also bought a Russian dolls from street vendors on our way back.....

... I would get lost or something. I was insisting on getting a coffee but i don't think the guide understood, and I didn't know the Russian for "if I don't get a coffee I'm going to die"so we had this kind of Mexican stand off ...in Russia. Then an English ...

... our hand at learning Russian which was good fun, but you know my achievements in foreign languages!!!  However, I found out that Russian is a Slavic language modeled on Greek and Hebrew - 33 letters, 21 consonants, 10 vowels - a,k,m,o,t same as ours, ...

... to room to write some blog. We then went out to see the next negotiation of a lock before going to a presentation on authentic Russian souvenirs which we now know are probably too expensive but we will know when we purchase a cheap fake. 12.15pm was a ...