Back in Russia once again: what a difference an invasion makes. What a difference a day made And the difference is you Dinah Washington – What a difference a day makes In about a month I will visit Russia once again, because of the 75th birthday of my mother-in-law. In spite of the mounting international tensions and the jawboning, warmongering and muscle-rolling of the former archenemies Russia and Europe/ US, it is a visit to which I look forward very much. In my opinion, there is nothing that beats wintertime in St-Petersburg. It is a time of intense cold weather and warm clothes; of being in a classic, beautiful city, lit up like an X-mas tree (check out my pictures in the article behind the next link - EL); of numerous visits to friends and family and of endless talking with a cup of tea or a bottle of vodka in hand. And perhaps, when I’m lucky, a visit to a ‘Banya’: a Russian sauna, heated up to red-hot temperatures; it will yield a few hours of relaxing and talking with friends, eating whole (!) dried fish and drinking Russian beer, before jumping in a small, iced pond to get rid of the intense heat. Still, at this moment I feel so intensely ‘how much difference an invasion made’.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:29:47 +0000
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