Welcome to couch surfingMany years ago, while sitting alone in a bar in Luxembourg, a Dutch couple approached me and asked, “Are you a couch surfer?”I had absolutely no idea…
What is Britishness? - Small town EnglandBefore we migrate to New Zealand, we got to spent some time in small town Suffolk.There's a true community spirit in this part of…
Getting a visa for Russia: Visas, Dachas & The Joy of Bureaucracy As a UK citizen, you need a visa to visit Russia regardless of what connections you may have…
Learning Russian in Moscow The Russian language uses the Cyrillic script, which to most of us raised on the Roman alphabet looks like someone has taken familiar letters, flipped them…