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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:
>>> My wife was the world traveler. She would bring souvenirs home. It's long
>>> gone but for some reason I thought about the balalaika she brought from
>>> the USSR recently. When I picked her up at the airport her first words
>>> were 'Take me to MacDonalds'. Soviet food was nourishing but she'd seen
>>> enough piroshki to last for a while.
>
> On 2025-02-12, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>> Ahh... where you able to stop her from travelling? If so, what is the
>> trick? ;)
>>
>> Never been to russia, but an acquaintance went to celebrate new years
>> there some years ago. Orange juice was super expensive, but vodka was
>> almost free.
>
> My second wife dropped out of college to become an au pair for a US
> embassy family in Moscow; she really wanted to see if the Russians were
> as evil as the cold war propaganda was making them out to be. Along the
> way, she met and married a Russian artist with a master's degree in icon
> painting and restoration. Eventually she brought him ack to California,
> and after his parents (an orthodox priest and his wife) joined them,
> they divorced. 15 years later, she had married me and we had a baby. Her
> best friend persuaded her to lead a tour of friends and family to the
> places she had visited with her husband back in the day. We spent a week
> in Yalta, then a couple of days each in Tashkent, Samarkand, Tblisi,
> Moscow and Leningrad. Very interesting. Yalta was a gated-off resort for
> the elite, but even there, the grocery stores had mostly empty shelves.
>

Quite a trip! Would be nice to read a trip report from that one. =)