Previous post in this series – The First Days in Bucharest It’s the evening of Saturday, 28th March as I’m writing this. In another 5 hours we’ll have been here for 7 days. It seems so long ago that we arrived with just our suitcases and couldn’t find our hotel! What a nightmare! I said […]
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Introducing Cheburashka
I’ve been wanting to write about Cheburashka for a long time. Now, although I’m no longer in Russia, I have time to tell you about this little guy who is loved so much by millions of children, their parents, and their grandparents, in Russia and the former Soviet Union countries. Who is Cheburashka? Cheburashka is […]
The First Days in Bucharest
Previous post – Bucharest, our arrival Sunday, 22nd March On Sunday morning, 22nd March, we woke up in the hotel earlier than we had planned. Our alarms hadn’t even gone off. It was before 10am, and checkout was at 12.00. We took showers, checked messages and emails. We ate the mozzarella and tomato wrap/sandwich that […]
Bucharest – The Arrival
Part 2 of our exit from Russia. At check-in at Sheremetyvo airport in Moscow, the woman told us that I would have to have 14 days self-isolation upon arrival in Bucharest. No problem, as long as we can get on the plane together. Olivier, being French and European, had no restrictions. Passport control in Bucharest […]
The Plan for 2020
The plan 2020 was going to be our year of new adventures. At 51 and 53, Olivier and I had decided to leave Moscow, where we’d lived for more than 10 years together, and we were going to travel the world for 6 months or more with no other plans for our future. We just […]