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Introduction 1. We have family in England and are always looking for different ways to get there from Australia. 2. 2. Russia has a long and interesting history going back to the 9th Century some of which can still be observed. In particular people are still alive who lived through the latest traumatic era of Russian history – the collapse of the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia 3. Russia is the crossroads of East and West – Asia and Europe. This fusion can be seen in Russian culture, architecture and art. Getting to Russia Russia has quite stringent requirements for the application of a visa, including listing the countries that have been visited in the last 10 years, noting the last two educational institutions and the last two jobs including supervisors. Happily our travel agent, Christine Klein of Travel Counsellors (christine.klein@email.travelcounsellors.com.au) organized that process. We do not like long haul travel so we stayed in Singapore