For the love of Pete! Part 1
St Petersberg, Russia’s ‘Western Capital’ is a true showcase of War & Peace. Preconceptions prevail indefinitely unless dispelled by new experience. Certainly, neither the crew-cut Colonel Rosa Klebb lookalike on the security scanner, nor the frosty monosyllabic border guard with curt instructions to ‘look at me’ as he tried to reconcile the death mask on my passport with the bronzed Atlas in front of him, did little to welcome us...